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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Jonathan Ames
    “I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
    ― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays
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    Tennessee Williams
    “I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: courage, talent
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    Henri Murger
    “The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
    ― Henry Murger
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
    ― Mario Vargas Llosa
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    Amy Sedaris
    “I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”
    ― Amy Sedaris
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    René Descartes
    “I think; therefore I am.”
    ― Rene Descartes
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Herman Melville
    “I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.”
    ― Herman Melville
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    Émile Zola
    “Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
    ― Emile Zola
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    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
    tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey
    3563 likes

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    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    ― François Rabelais
    tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter
    4569 likes

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    “There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.”
    ― Joseph Pulitzer
    tags: crime, secrecy, transparency, vice
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    Seamus Heaney
    “If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
    ― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
    tags: expression, finding-your-voice, poetry
    2622 likes

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    Edward Gorey
    “The helpful thought for which you look
    Is written somewhere in a book.”
    ― Edward Gorey
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “I will drink life to the lees.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13880 likes

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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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    Carolyn Forché
    “The heart is the toughest part of the body.
    Tenderness is in the hands.”
    ― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador
    tags: inspirational, love
    1644 likes

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    Bobbie Ann Mason
    “One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
    ― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories
    tags: cats
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: books, humor
    4147 likes

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    Ian Fleming
    “Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
    ― Ian Fleming
    3838 likes



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