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    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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    Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
    ― Henry Louis Gates Jr
    tags: african-american, american, censorship, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-read, literary
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    Gloria Whelan
    “They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
    ― Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions
    tags: artistic, bohemian, change-the-world, doing, talking, visonary
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
    tags: love
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    Gertrude Stein
    “One must dare to be happy. ”
    ― Gertrude Stein
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    Natalie Angier
    “We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
    ― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: dorothy-parker, heterosexuality, homosexuality, humor, wit
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    Ben Okri
    “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
    ― Ben Okri
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    Ama Ata Aidoo
    “Humans, not places, make memories.”
    ― Ama Ata Aidoo
    tags: memories
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    Shūsaku Endō
    “Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
    ― Shusaku Endo
    tags: weakness
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    Octavio Paz
    “Deserve your dream.”
    ― octavio paz
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    Gertrude Stein
    “It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: genius, humor
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    George Carlin
    “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: benediction, evil, goodwill, humor, inspirational, wishes
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    Chuck Klosterman
    “Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.”
    ― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
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    Gregory Maguire
    “Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Harriet Martineau
    “You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”
    ― Harriet Martineau
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    Anthony Bourdain
    “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
    ― Anthony Bourdain
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    Natsuki Takaya
    “Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.”
    ― Natsuki Takaya
    tags: fruits-basket, haru, try
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    Michael Connelly
    “Everybody counts, or nobody counts.”
    ― Michael Connelly
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    Fahmida Riaz
    “What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities.”
    ― Fahmida Riaz
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    Primo Levi
    “Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.”
    ― Primo Levi, The Periodic Table
    tags: perfection
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  • #23
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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  • #24
    “If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.”
    ― Melody Carstairs
    tags: dance, freedom, happiness, happy, liberation, motivational, motivational-quotes, sing, smile
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    Gilda Radner
    “I think dogs are the most amazing creatures;
    they give unconditional love.
    For me they are the role model for being alive.”
    ― Gilda Radner
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    Gilda Radner
    “I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.”
    ― Gilda Radner
    tags: humor
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    Yann Martel
    “I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart. ”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
    tags: goodbye, heart, love, pain
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
    tags: atheism, humanism
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: civic-duty, dissent, patriotism, truth-telling
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    Pascal Mercier
    “There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.”
    ― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
    tags: books, literature, words
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    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness
    3190 likes



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