Quotes - Tarie Marcelin (tmarcelin) Showing 1-21 of 21

#1

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: draco-malfoy, stupidity

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#2

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: life

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#3

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

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#4

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading

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#5

“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

tags: romance

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#6

“I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
― William Trevor

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#7

“Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure…”
― Patricia Polacco

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#8

“He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: crises

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#9

“Richard wrote a diary entry in his head.

Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiancée, a home, and a life that made sense. (Well, as much as any life makes sense). Then I found an injured girl bleeding on the pavement, and I tried to be a Good Samaritan. Now I've got no fiancée, no home, no job, and I'm walking around a couple of hundred feet under the streets of London with the projected life expectancy of a suicidal fruitfly.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: fruit-flies, life-changing-events, life-expectancy

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#10

“He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me."

Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: humor

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#11

“What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: humor, ignorance, irony

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#12

“Can I help you?" said the footman. Richard had been told to fuck off and die with more warmth and good humor.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: richards

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#13

“Rubbish!" screamed a fat, elderly woman, in Richard's ear, as he passed her malodorous stall. "Junk!" She continued. "Garbage! Trash! Offal! Debris! Come and get it! Nothing whole or undamaged! Crap, tripe, and useless piles of shit. You know you want it.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: humor, trash

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#14

“You're never too young to die.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker

tags: adventure

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#15

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#16

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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