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    William S. Burroughs
    “Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: disadvantage, internal, parasites
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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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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60253 likes

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    Lenny Bruce
    “There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.”
    ― Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
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  • #5
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64643 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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  • #7
    Robert Frost
    “The best way out is always through.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: feelings, persistence, problems
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    E.B. White
    “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E.B. White
    tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
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    Demetri Martin
    “Sort of' is such a harmless thing to say... sort of. It's just a filler. Sort of... it doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, sort of means everything. Like... after "I love you"... or "You're going to live"... or "It's a boy!”
    ― Demetri Martin
    tags: comedian, comedy, equivocation, funny, humor
    72 likes

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    Demetri Martin
    “Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.”
    ― Demetri Martin
    tags: art, crafts, glitter, herpes
    52 likes

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  • #11
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: inspirational, life, spiritual, uplifting
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    Steve Toltz
    “There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.”
    ― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Woodrow Wilson
    “I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
    ― Woodrow Wilson
    tags: brains, intelligence
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: books, reading
    5868 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
    6786 likes

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    Jack London
    “Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
    ― Jack London
    tags: club, inspiration
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    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: books, life
    3689 likes

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    John Donne
    “Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
    ― John Donne, The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of the Soul. Notes
    tags: jail, palace, world
    889 likes

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  • #21
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
    7772 likes

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  • #22
    André Breton
    “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
    ― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
    tags: love, madness
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    Toni Morrison
    “Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993
    tags: story, writing
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    Tupelo Hassman
    “But if you just got your first car and you're feeling around for the seat lever and find "Desolation Angels" instead, the beautiful people on the cover so lazily entwined, well, that's the type of experience that can turn your head around.”
    ― Tupelo Hassman, Girlchild
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: science
    8411 likes

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  • #27
    Seán O'Casey
    “When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
    ― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]
    tags: hope, sun
    1915 likes

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    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    ― Robert Bloch
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  • #29
    James Branch Cabell
    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    ― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion
    tags: optimism, pessimism
    2215 likes

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  • #30
    Robert J. Sawyer
    “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
    ― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God
    2277 likes



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