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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
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Charles Bukowski
    “For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: atheism, religion
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Shannon A. Thompson
    “Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.”
    ― Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise
    tags: achievement, achievements, achieving-success, ambition, attitude, controlling-your-future, destiny, earning, fate, follow-your-dreams, future, future-plans, goals, goals-in-life, reaching-for-your-dreams, reaching-your-goals, responsibility, self-discipline, striving-for-success, success, taking-fate-into-your-own-hands, work-hard
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    Billy Joel
    “You can get what you want or you can just get old.”
    ― Billy Joel
    tags: follow-your-dreams, growing-up
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    “I almost wish I had cancer. Then I’d either beat it or die from it. But my disease, even if successfully treated, will never go away. And it might not kill me. But it will hang over me like the blade of a guillotine; more threatening inert than if the blade suddenly slips and mercifully turns out my lights. This is my war to end all wars.”
    ― William Cope Moyers
    tags: addiction, recovery, struggle
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
    ― Honore de Balzac
    tags: government, injustice, law
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    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    ― Daniel Pennac
    tags: books, reading, rights
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    Sacha Scoblic / Zimmerman
    “I want to live a big life, where every moment goes unwasted.”
    ― Sacha Z. Scoblic, Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: inspirational
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    Alan W. Watts
    “The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Alan W. Watts
    “I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: future, illusion, past, present, time
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