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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Susan Beth Pfeffer
    “I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.”
    ― Susan Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It
    tags: science-fiction
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    Charles Dickens
    “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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    Frank Herbert
    “If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.”
    ― Frank Herbert, The Dune Storybook
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Oh, the cleverness of me!”
    ― James M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: peter-pan-clever-arrogance
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    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
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    Francis Bacon
    “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: hope
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    John Green
    “Maybe I was supposed to hate Caroline Mathers or something because she’d been with Augustus, but I didn’t. I couldn’t see her very clearly amid all the tributes, but there didn’t seem to be much to hate. She seemed to be mostly a professional sick person, like me, which made me worry that when I died they’d have nothing to say about me except that I fought heroically, as if the only thing I’d ever done was Have Cancer.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: cancer, caroline, caroline-mathers, have-cancer
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    Kiera Cass
    “Oh, yes. She’s still here,” Maxon said, not letting his eyes wander from Gavril’s face. “And I plan on keeping her here for quite a while.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Selection
    tags: america-singer, prince-maxon, the-selection
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    Kiera Cass
    “Because even though you're dating five other women, I think I'm cheating on you.”
    ― kiera cass, The Selection
    tags: america, prince-maxon
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    Mae West
    “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
    ― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
    tags: ambition, disobedience, empowerment, girls, goodness, naughty, promiscuity, risque, self-determination, wickedness, women
    2060 likes

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    Neal Shusterman
    “I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
    tags: ambition, failure, irony, optimism
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  • #13
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: ambition, bullying, character, moral-courage
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Don't go where I can't follow!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Charles Bukowski
    “My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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    Charles Bukowski
    “You have to die a few times before you can really
    live.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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    Andrew Smith
    “I love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming.”
    ― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle
    tags: everything, explosion, stories
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    Andrew Smith
    “Sometimes it is perfectly acceptable to decide not to decide, to remain confused and wide-eyed about the next thing that will pop up in the road you build.”
    ― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle
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    Andrew Smith
    “Everyone on every road that crossed beneath the point of my pen was always going to do the same things over and over and over.

    I was confused.

    How could I be in love with a girl and a boy, at the same time?

    I was trapped forever.

    You know what I mean.”
    ― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle
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    Andrew Smith
    “Here is what the end of the world looks like:

    It looks like a child running out into the road, eyes focused only on some destination ahead - the future, which is on the other side - and the child fails to notice the speeding truck that is there, on that same road, in the present.

    This is what the end of the world looks like.

    All roads cross here.”
    ― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle
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    Andrew Smith
    “History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.”
    ― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle
    tags: boys, history, lonely, men, sexually-uncertain
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