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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
    tags: strength
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    Andrew Carnegie
    “Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.”
    ― Andrew Carnegie
    tags: pudd-nhead-wilson, twain
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    Mark Twain
    “The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
    ― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales
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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
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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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
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    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, imagination
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: women
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    Zoë S. Roy
    “Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party?
    I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces.
    In the name of revolution, for thought crimes,
    Such questions can turn me to ashes.”
    ― Zoë S. Roy , Calls Across the Pacific
    tags: chinese-american, chinese-canadian, literary-fiction, maoist-china, novel, the-cultural-revolution, the-vietnam-war
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    Zoë S. Roy
    “The dictator’s black hand had
    made China a birdcage wrapped in red flags."--From "Balloons”
    ― Zoë S. Roy, Butterfly Tears
    tags: chinese-american-women, chinese-canadian-women, chinese-women, mao-s-china, mao-s-death, short-fiction, the-cultura-revolution, women-immigrants
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    “God and the bodhisattvas are useless,” she said. “They only control good people, not bad people.”
    ― Ling Zhang, A Single Swallow
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    “You were smart, but there were plenty of people in the world who were smarter than you, and cleverness is sometimes the biggest obstacle. Fortunately, you were also diligent and persistent. Diligence clips the wings of cleverness, allowing it to stay firmly on the ground. Persistence grinds away the sharp edges of cleverness, not allowing it to take shortcuts through things. Cleverness thus clipped can more fully penetrate the nature of things.”
    ― Ling Zhang, A Single Swallow
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    “Ferguson watched her walk out of the courtyard calmly, dust rising from the road with each firm step, her loosened hair shaking softly. This girl made all the women he’d ever known—even his mother, his sister, and his former girlfriend—seem pale and weak.”
    ― Ling Zhang, A Single Swallow
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    Zoë S. Roy
    “During Mao’s era, the Chinese people were absolutely controlled by the Communist Party that decided food and accommodation, education and employment, what to think and say, and what to read and write about. ”--Interview with Zoë S. Roy, author of Spinster Kang”
    ― Zoë S. Roy, Spinster Kang
    tags: former-soviet-union, leftover-women, mao-s-china, relationships, spinster, the-interracial-relationship, women-immigrants
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    Zoë S. Roy
    “The word spinster, mixed with stifled laughter from the living room, picked her ear like a needle. Will I ever escape the culture of my faraway country? she wondered.”
    ― Zoë S. Roy, Spinster Kang
    tags: culture-shock, humor, interracial-love, spinster
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    Zoë S. Roy
    “A wide-brimmed spinster’s hat had been thrown up in the sky. It was gradually falling into the deep ocean.”
    ― Zoë S. Roy, Spinster Kang
    tags: culture-shock, humor, interracial-love, spinster
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