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    Mervyn Peake
    “We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.”
    ― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: secrecy
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate
    are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and
    alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it
    fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my
    fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the
    strength to keep to it.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The Road goes ever on and on
    Down from the door where it began.
    Now far ahead the Road has gone,
    And I must follow, if I can,
    Pursuing it with eager feet,
    Until it joins some larger way
    Where many paths and errands meet.
    And whither then? I cannot say”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: road
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    Mervyn Peake
    “Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.”
    ― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
    tags: alone, loneliness
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    Mervyn Peake
    “When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble, but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door.”
    ― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
    tags: gormenghast
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    Mervyn Peake
    “It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was different, for the spirit of convention was being rigorously adhered to, and in between his ribs Mr. Flay experienced twinges of pleasure.”
    ― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
    tags: happiness, independence, revolution
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: ends, perversion, security, suffering
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    “They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”
    ― Clint Eastwood
    tags: happiness, heaven-made, lightning, marriage, married-life, matrimony, quarrel, thunder
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    Umberto Eco
    “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
    ― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
    tags: fathers, parenting, wisdom
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    Yogi Berra
    “Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
    ― Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
    tags: funny
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    Yogi Berra
    “You can observe a lot just by watching.”
    ― Yogi Berra
    tags: managment, science, truism
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    Yogi Berra
    “90% of the game is half mental.”
    ― Yogi Berra , The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said
    tags: inspirational, math-humor
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    Yogi Berra
    “Okay you guys, pair up in threes!”
    ― Yogi Berra
    tags: baseball, humor
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    Yogi Berra
    “We're lost, but we're making good time.”
    ― Yogi Berra
    tags: humor
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Ray Bradbury
    “With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: thinking
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    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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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    ― Robert Bloch
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle ('Please read this carefully and send it on Jane') the clan has a tendency to ignore me. It's one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor - and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves
    tags: mastodon, wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves
    tags: humor, wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “you ever have that feeling when you step down onto a footstep that isn't there?”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: humor, wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.”
    ― P. G. Wodehouse
    tags: humor, psmith, wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: wodehouse
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