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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
    tags: reading
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    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
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    Horace Mann
    “A house without books is like a room without windows.”
    ― Horace Mann
    tags: books, house, simile, windows
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    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Steven Wright
    “Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
    ― Steven Wright
    tags: amnesia, humor, memory
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Dennis Lehane
    “Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.”
    ― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile
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    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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  • #14
    “You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
    ― Olin Miller
    tags: confidence, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, others, think, worry
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    Jennifer Egan
    “She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
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    Henry James
    “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: beauty, english, literature, summer
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    Amor Towles
    “Slurring is the cursive of speech...”
    ― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility
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    Norton Juster
    “Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
    tags: philosophy
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    Nora Ephron
    “…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.”
    ― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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    Paul Murray
    “Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will not be the rollercoaster ride you'd imagined, that the world occupied by your parents, the world of washing the dishes, going to the dentist, weekend trips to the DIY superstore to buy floor tiles, is actually largely what people mean when they speak of 'life'.”
    ― Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
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    Paul Murray
    “Never frown even when ur sad, coz u never know whose falling in love with ur smile!”
    ― Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
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    Paul Murray
    “Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.”
    ― Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
    tags: grace, humiliation, humor, life
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    Gillian Flynn
    “Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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    Gillian Flynn
    “Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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    Gillian Flynn
    “There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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    Stephen King
    “That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
    ― Stephen King, The Stand
    tags: god, humor
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
    tags: simplicity
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    Nora Ephron
    “When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
    ― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
    tags: humor
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    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas-fils
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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  • #30
    “Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
    ― Brad Paisley
    tags: new-year
    993 likes



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