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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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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    Henning Mankell
    “Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said.
    "No work would be possible without coffee."
    They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.”
    ― Henning Mankell, One Step Behind
    tags: coffee
    219 likes

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  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    ― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist
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  • #7
    Christopher Hitchens
    “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
    tags: evidence, skepticism
    392 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: candle, lost-love, sunset
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    Graham Chapman
    “You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.”
    ― Monty Python
    tags: libraries
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    Roger Zelazny
    “I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber
    tags: libraries, libraries-shadows, security, words
    552 likes

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    Robert Harris
    “Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.”
    ― Robert Harris, Imperium
    tags: cicero, life, rome
    40 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The Jabalites .... They worship no god; and if we in goodness of heart do send a missionary to show them the way of life, they listen with respect to all he hath to say, and then they eat him. This doth tend to hinder the spread of light.”
    ― Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
    tags: humor, religion
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    William Shakespeare
    “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: love
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    Steven Moffat
    “Demons run when a good man goes to war
    Night will fall and drown the sun
    When a good man goes to war

    Friendship dies and true love lies
    Night will fall and the dark will rise
    When a good man goes to war

    Demons run, but count the cost
    The battle's won, but the child is lost”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor-who
    2425 likes

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    Lewis Black
    “Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?”
    ― Lewis Black, Me of Little Faith
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    Joe R. Lansdale
    “ A day without the sun is like you know, night


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    ― Joe
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    Patricia A. McKillip
    “The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”
    ― Patricia A. McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, readers, reading
    1100 likes

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    Jess Walter
    “If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.”
    ― Jess Walter
    tags: humor
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    Raymond Radiguet
    “Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else - and failing.”
    ― Raymond Radiguet
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  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “Deep in the rain forest it was doing what it usually does in rain forests, which was raining: hence the name.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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    Brian W. Aldiss
    “When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.”
    ― Brian Aldiss
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  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
    3546 likes

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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
    ― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
    tags: humor
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  • #26
    S.L. Viehl
    “Nice place," I said while prudently hovering near the only exit.”
    ― S.L. Viehl
    tags: humorous
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    Blaize Clement
    “Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.”
    ― Blaize Clement
    tags: kindlehighlight
    66 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    294 likes

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  • #29
    Mark Lawrence
    “Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools
    tags: death
    6 likes

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  • #30
    Thomas Paine
    “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
    tags: close-mindedness, simile, stubbornness
    914 likes



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