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    Albert Einstein
    “Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: funny
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: bad, charming, good, tedious
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    Brian Andreas
    “The Wonder of it All:
    Sitting there in your pajamas & all the time in the world & if I could keep any moment it would be this: watching you & holding my breath with the wonder of it all.”
    ― Brian Andreas
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    Brian Andreas
    “I saw them standing there pretending to be just friends, when all the time in the world could not pry them apart. ”
    ― Brian Andreas
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    Brian Andreas
    “Invention:
    I always wanted to invent something that would move around & make funny noises & would change the world as we know it & I forgot all about that until we had kids & now I see I came pretty close.”
    ― Brian Andreas
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    Douglas Coupland
    “I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, Microserfs
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    Douglas Coupland
    “Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief
    tags: growing-up, memories
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    Ariel Levy
    “Sex is one of the most interesting things we as humans have to play with, and we've reduced it to polyester underpants and implants. We are selling ourselves unbelievably short.”
    ― Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
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    Ariel Levy
    “There are some women who are probably genuinely aroused by the idea of being photographed naked. But I think we can safely assume that many more women appear in Playboy for the simple reason that they are paid to. Which is fine. But 'because I was paid to' is not the same thing as 'I'm taking control of my sexuality.”
    ― Ariel Levy
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    Justin Halpern
    “Sometimes life leaves a hundred-dollar bill on your dresser, and you don't realize until later it's because it fucked you.”
    ― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says
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    Caitlin Moran
    “And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.”
    ― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
    tags: books, friends, library, reading, social-group
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    Jarod Kintz
    “The birds fly south for the winter not because it’s cold, but because they have wings. Similarly, love has the ultimate flight pattern, and that pattern is plaid.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
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    David Lynch
    “There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.”
    ― David Lynch
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: entrepreneurship, inspirational, leadership
    787 likes

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    Margaret Mead
    “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
    ― Margaret Mead
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lotr, war
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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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    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
    "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
    "I don't much care where –"
    "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: adventure
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: acumen, authority, book-knowledge, bookish, brainy, charge, cleverness, comand, control, direction, dominance, foresight, genuis, huge, immature, influence, intelligence, knowledge, leader, leadership, leading, little-things, looks, management, mastery, power, precocious, rule, sight, size, small, sovereignty, steering, superintendence, supremacy, sway, tiny, wisdom, wise
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  • #21
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Robertson Davies
    “A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
    ― Robertson Davies
    tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature
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    Bram Stoker
    “I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: daydream, dracula, hopes, sea
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    “I used to think I was the strangest person in the world
    but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do
    I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.
    well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
    ― Rebecca Katherine Martin
    tags: bizarre, feel, flawed, hope, imgaine, know, misattributed-frida-kahlo, people, person, read, strangest, think-strange, thought, world
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Douglas Coupland
    “But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, Microserfs
    tags: bee, bumble-bee, flying
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  • #29
    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    B.J. Novak
    “It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.”
    ― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
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