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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Richard Adams
    “Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.”
    ― Richard Adams, Watership Down
    tags: psychology
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    Richard Adams
    “Black Rabbit: Hazel... Hazel... you know me, don't you?
    Hazel: I don't know.
    [the apparition reveals himself to be the Black Rabbit, and Hazel gasps]
    Hazel: Yes, my lord. I know you.
    Black Rabbit: I've come to ask if you'd like to join my Owsla. We shall be glad to have you, and I know you'd like it. You've been feeling tired, haven't you? If you're ready, we might go along now.
    [Hazel looks at all the younger rabbits of Watership Down]
    Black Rabbit: You needn't worry about them. They'll be all right, and thousands like them. If you come along now, I'll show you what I mean.”
    ― Richard Adams, Watership Down
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    Philip Pullman
    “When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
    tags: choice, philosophy
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    William Goldman
    “We’ll never survive!”
    “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: doubt, humor, optimism, survival
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    Ken Kesey
    “It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
    ― Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale
    tags: enlightenment, existence
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    Daniel Keyes
    “There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin."

    --Charlie Gordan”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: begin, doors, impatient
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    tags: chess, disaster, game, panic
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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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    William Goldman
    “Love is many things none of them logical.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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    “I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”
    ― James Mitchner
    tags: writing-rewriting
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    Thor Heyerdahl
    “Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.”
    ― Thor Heyerdahl
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    Neal Stephenson
    “Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
    ― Neal Stephenson
    tags: bad, bad-guy, bad-person, crime, humor, motherfucker, revenge
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    George Burns
    “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
    ― George Burns
    tags: family, happiness, humor
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: family
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    Oscar Wilde
    “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
    tags: family, food, thanksgiving
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    Harper Lee
    “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: racism, respect
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    John Steinbeck
    “Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: blame, excuses, family
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    Tad Williams
    “He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.”
    ― Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair
    tags: ending, foolish, wisdom, wonder
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    Tad Williams
    “Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.”
    ― Tad Williams
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    Tad Williams
    “We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.”
    ― Tad Williams
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    Tad Williams
    “Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.”
    ― Tad Williams, Shadowrise
    tags: ancestors, funny
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    Tad Williams
    “Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.”
    ― Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair
    tags: hard-work, imagination, labor, my-life-story, treasures
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    William Goldman
    “Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: absurd, beauty, conceit, humor, love
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    William Goldman
    “Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: cynics, humor, life, romantics, writing
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  • #27
    “A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.”
    ― James A. Michener
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  • #28
    “Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.”
    ― James A. Michener
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  • #29
    David Brin
    “Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.”
    ― David Brin, Earth
    tags: environment, environmentalism, environmentalists, logistics, people, practicality, realism
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    William Zinsser
    “Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.”
    ― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
    tags: writing
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