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  • #1
    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    Michael Chabon
    “There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
    ― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
    tags: life
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    Jane Austen
    “It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Philipp Meyer
    “No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.”
    ― Philipp Meyer, The Son
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    Smitha Murthy
    “The more I work on happiness- the more I realize that you can’t seek happiness, you can’t find happiness- you simply have to remember to be happy.”
    ― Smitha Murthy
    tags: happiness
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    Tania James
    “These stories are important to me, not because they happen to be about South Asians, but because they’re circling around a certain strain of loneliness that goes deeper than cultural dissonance, that has to do with the yearning to connect with someone else, or with some unreachable vision of home.”
    ― Tania James
    tags: identity
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    Tania James
    “Sometimes sentiments were better left in song.”
    ― Tania James
    tags: love
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    Sheila Heti
    “It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.”
    ― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?
    tags: consumerism
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  • #9
    Geraldine Brooks
    “For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
    ― Geraldine Brooks, March
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  • #10
    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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  • #11
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #12
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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  • #14
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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  • #22
    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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  • #23
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion… but also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion… the only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: science-fiction
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    Wally Lamb
    “Ask any of us cynical bastards. to lift up our shirt, and we'll show you where we got shot in the heart.”
    ― Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed
    tags: reality-relationship
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing to be so little reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and fairly judge them.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: art, criticism, love
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  • #26
    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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  • #27
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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