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    Bill Hicks
    “It's all about money, not freedom, y'all, okay? Nothing to do with fuckin' freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without fucking money, okay?”
    ― Bill Hicks
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    Roger Ebert
    “I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.”
    ― Roger Ebert
    tags: civilization, empathy
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Stephen King
    “Invitation to Dance-
    It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom.
    But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark.
    May I have the pleasure?”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: horror
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    Dean Koontz
    “Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
    ― Dean Koontz
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Lee Child
    “Hope for the best, plan for the worst.”
    ― Lee Child
    tags: reacher
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    Lee Child
    “Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!”
    ― Lee Child
    tags: writing
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    George Carlin
    “Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
    ― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
    tags: crazy, men, stupid, truth, women
    7646 likes

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    Jack Ketchum
    “Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.”
    ― Jack Ketchum
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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
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    Sadie Hartmann
    “I love a good story about everyone dying.”
    ― Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
    tags: apocalyptic
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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    Sangu Mandanna
    “Niceness is all about what we do when other people are looking. Kindness, on the other hand, runs deep. Kindness is what happens when no one’s looking.”
    ― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
    tags: kindness
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    Charles Dickens
    “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: crying, heartfelt, shame, sorrow, tears
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth
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    Shirley Jackson
    “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
    tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity
    1312 likes



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