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    Henry Green
    “The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
    ― Henry Green
    tags: highlight, revision, secrets, storytelling, style, writer, writers
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    William Steig
    “Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.”
    ― William Steig, Dominic
    tags: life
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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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  • #4
    “You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
    ― Ira Glass
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    Lorraine Hansberry
    “There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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    Anne Frank
    “I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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    John Updike
    “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
    ― John Updike
    tags: to-keep-up-ur-dreams-_
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    Julia Glass
    “When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
    ― Julia Glass, Three Junes
    tags: fate
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    Tennessee Williams
    “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams
    tags: angels, demons
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  • #11
    Anna Sewell
    “If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.”
    ― Anna Sewell , Black Beauty
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol
    tags: gogol, heroes, laughter, life, nikolai, tears
    1308 likes

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  • #13
    Haruki Murakami
    “What happens when people open their hearts?"
    "They get better.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: healing, vulnerability
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    Émile Zola
    “I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
    ― Emile Zola
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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  • #16
    “Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: equality, fairness, feminism, freedom-of-choice, inspirational, truth
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    Bill Watterson
    “The world isn't fair, Calvin."
    "I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
    tags: cartoons, comics, fairness, humor
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    Hugo Claus
    “I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.”
    ― Hugo Claus
    tags: fairness, injustice, life, restlessness, unfairness, unhappiness
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    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)”
    ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
    tags: culture, expectations, fairness, injustice, perception, society
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    Victor Hugo
    “Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: fairness, goodness, justice
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  • #21
    Sue Monk Kidd
    “Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: fairness, pain, world
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    Criss Jami
    “I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: double-standard, fairness, fairness-of-life, funny, humor, humor-relationships, independence, jerk, life, men, pigs, relationships, unfairness, unfairness-of-life, women
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    Ashly Lorenzana
    “Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.”
    ― Ashly Lorenzana
    tags: empathy, fairness, karma, life, role-reversal
    174 likes

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  • #24
    Rick Riordan
    “Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
    tags: equity, fairness, inspirational
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  • #25
    “To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.”
    ― Roseanne Barr
    tags: bulls, fairness, justice, life, vegetarianism
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    Jeff Lindsay
    “Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.”
    ― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious
    tags: competency, fairness, jobs, work
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    Euripides
    “In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.”
    ― Euripides, The Children of Herakles
    tags: disagreements, dissent, due-process, fairness, impartiality, judgment, justice
    128 likes

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  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
    tags: fairness, good-will, patience
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    William Goldman
    “I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: death, fairness, life, love, wise-last-chapter
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  • #31
    Seneca
    “Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)”
    ― Seneca, Medea
    tags: due-process, fairness, impartiality, justice
    87 likes



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