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    Ruth Reichl
    “Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
    ― Ruth Reichl
    tags: community, eating, food, life, sharing
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    James Dickey
    “A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
    ― James Dickey
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    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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    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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    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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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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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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    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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    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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    John Green
    “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
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    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
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    John Green
    “Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: augustus-waters, hazel, heartbreak, privilege
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    Joan Didion
    “You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”
    ― Joan Didion
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    Joan Didion
    “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”
    ― Joan Didion
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    Walter Mosley
    “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
    ― Walter Mosley, Blue Light
    tags: change, growth
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    LeVar Burton
    “For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
    ― LeVar Burton
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Love will be an impulse that will inspire and ruin in equal measure.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
    tags: love
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
    tags: memory
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    Neil Gaiman
    “When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
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    Helen Fielding
    “It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
    ― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
    tags: heathcliff, humour, mr-darcy, snooty, wuthering-heights
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    Julia Child
    “The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
    ― Julia Child
    tags: dieting, diets, eating, food, joy-of-life, steak
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    Julia Child
    “If you're afraid of butter, use cream.”
    ― Julia Child
    tags: attributed-no-source, cholesterol, food
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    Julia Child
    “Life itself is the proper binge.”
    ― Julia Child
    tags: food, life
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    Albert Einstein
    “The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: wonder
    2207 likes



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