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    T.H. White
    “The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
    ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
    tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life
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    Donald E. Westlake
    “Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
    ― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much
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    Sacha Scoblic / Zimmerman
    “I mistook my free fall for freedom.”
    ― Sacha Z. Scoblic, Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety
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    Sidney Lanier
    “Music is love in search of a word.”
    ― Sidney Lanier
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    Amy Tan
    “If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
    ― Amy Tan
    tags: life
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    Amy Tan
    “I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”
    ― Amy Tan
    tags: constellation, heavens, star
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: love
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: feel, feelings
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: soul, souls
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, peace
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: ignorant, men, noble
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
    tags: discipline, freedom
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    Roald Amundsen
    “Adventure is just bad planning.”
    ― Roald Amundsen
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
    tags: books
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    Dorothy Allison
    “Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
    ― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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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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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
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    Armistead Maupin
    “Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
    ― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City
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    Lorraine Hansberry
    “The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: rhett-butler-to-scarlett
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “My dear, I don't give a damn.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: common-misquote
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