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    Ken Kesey
    “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
    ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    tags: relationships
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    Jennifer Egan
    “I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: experience, failure, metaphor, success, wisdom
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
    tags: happiness, love
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    Samuel Beckett
    “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
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    Lionel Shriver
    “...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
    ― Stéphane Mallarmé
    tags: books, reading
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    ― Nikolai V. Gogol
    tags: humor, sadness
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    Henry Adams
    “Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
    ― Henry Adams
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Tom Stoppard
    “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    tags: stoppard
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
    tags: authors, childhood, humor, southern-authors, southern-writers, writing
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    T.M. Logan
    “A liar should have a good memory.”
    ― T.M. Logan, Lies
    tags: liar, liars, memories, memory
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    T.M. Logan
    “It is better to know than not know.”
    ― T.M. Logan, Lies
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    T.M. Logan
    “Two is one, one is none.’ I had no idea what that meant. I”
    ― T.M. Logan, Lies
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: writing
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    “A man writes to separate himself from the common history. A woman writes to try to join it.”
    ― Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
    tags: history, man, woman, writing
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    “Your feet may be small,
    but travel much.
    Your hands may be little,
    but conquer much.
    Your eyes may be tiny,
    but perceive much.
    Your ears may be modest,
    but heed much.

    Your head may be small,
    but think much.
    Your heart may be little,
    but give much.
    Your soul may be tiny,
    but love much.
    Your life may be modest,
    but impact much.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: africa-quotes, african-philosopher-quotes, african-philosophy-quotes, enlightenment-quotes, guru-quotations, guru-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, philosopher-quotations, solomonology-quotes, wise-quotes
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    Laurie Lee
    “Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things”
    ― Laurie Lee, Cider with Rosie
    tags: beauty, beauty-in-nature, boyhood, childhood-memories, cider-with-rosie, countryside, landscape, laurie-lee, nature, pastoral
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    Ross Macdonald
    “There was nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.”
    ― Ross Macdonald, The Drowning Pool
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    Salman Rushdie
    “Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.

    If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.

    I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

    To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: books, free-speech, freespeech, offense, rights
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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