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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
    ― Machiavelli Niccolo
    tags: political-theory, sociology
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
    43903 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
    12565 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: attributed-no-source, writing
    4213 likes

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    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
    2159 likes

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    George Orwell
    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: politics-language
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    E.M. Forster
    “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
    ― E.M. Forster
    tags: advice, e-m-forster, essay, fiction, writing
    667 likes

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    Alan Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    ― Alan Moore
    tags: life
    6796 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: drinking
    4211 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
    15050 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: authors, good-books, truth, writers
    2753 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All thinking men are atheists.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
    tags: atheism, inspirational
    2629 likes

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    Peter De Vries
    “Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
    ― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben
    tags: misattributed-to-hemingway, writing-drinking
    1770 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
    9085 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
    41009 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: identity, originality
    6267 likes

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    Noam Chomsky
    “The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: education, education-system, instituions
    1544 likes

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  • #19
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
    8529 likes



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