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    Constantinos P. Cavafy
    “When you set sail for Ithaca,
    wish for the road to be long,
    full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
    ― C.P. Cavafy
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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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    Nellie Bly
    “Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
    ― Nellie Bly
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
    tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset
    5316 likes

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    Gary Snyder
    “O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!”
    ― Gary Snyder
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    Eoin Colfer
    “It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
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    Nora Ephron
    “What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
    ― Nora Ephron
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: seuss
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    André Brink
    “In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
    ― Andre Brink, Before I Forget
    tags: love
    1589 likes

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    Djuna Barnes
    “A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
    ― Djuna Barnes
    tags: jungism, personhood, shadow-self
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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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    Dan Brown
    “Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
    tags: knowledge
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    Hilary Mantel
    “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: facts, knowledge
    2283 likes

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    David Nicholls
    “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
    tags: hope, love
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden
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    Helen Thomas
    “I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.”
    ― Helen Thomas
    tags: journalism
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  • #17
    Sarah Waters
    “The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger...”
    ― Sarah Waters
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: book-the-count-of-monte-cristo
    2881 likes

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    Michael Palin
    “You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
    ― Michael Palin
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    Michael Palin
    “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life”
    ― Michael Palin
    tags: reisen, trave, travel, traveling
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    Michael Palin
    “I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.”
    ― Michael Palin, Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
    tags: argument, black-and-white, debate, shades-of-grey
    101 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32150 likes

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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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    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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    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie
    9015 likes

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    Diana Nyad
    “I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
    ― Diana Nyad
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    Guillaume Apollinaire
    “How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
    ― Guillaume Apollinaire
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    Ray Bradbury
    “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: censorship
    2653 likes

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    Stephen King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Sherman Alexie
    “If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
    ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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