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    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance
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    Charles Bukowski
    “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Stephen King
    “If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
    ― Stephen King
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: friendship, insincerity, manners
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    Bill Hicks
    “This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.”
    ― Bill Hicks
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    Truman Capote
    “Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: writing
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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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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
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    Mark Twain
    “Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: illusions, life
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Cyril Connolly
    “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

    [The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
    ― Cyril Connolly
    tags: faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Anaïs Nin
    “He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
    tags: jealousy, passion
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    E. Nesbit
    “There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
    ― E. Nesbit, The Magic World
    tags: eat, eating, humor, luxury, reading
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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Not an hour is lost that is spent in the saddle.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
    tags: age-adult
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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    Bertrand Russell
    “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: paraphrased, philosophy
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    T.E. Lawrence
    “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
    ― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
    tags: dreamers, dreaming, dreams, open-eyes, open-mind
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    David Levithan
    “I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
    ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: homicide, suicide
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    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
    ― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: thinking
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    Ernest Cline
    “Going outside is highly overrated.”
    ― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
    tags: aa-17-32, anorak-s-almanac
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