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  • #1
    Edward Abbey
    “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
    ― Edward Abbey
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    Marianne Moore
    “Your thorns are the best part of you.”
    ― Marianne Moore
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    John Steinbeck
    “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
    why.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: friends, friendship
    2394 likes

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  • #4
    Kate Chopin
    “She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
    ― Kate Chopin
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  • #5
    Joy Williams
    “She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
    ― Joy Williams
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  • #6
    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
    2146 likes

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  • #7
    Anthony Burgess
    “Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
    ― Anthony Burgess
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  • #8
    Victor Hugo
    “To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
    ― Victor Hugo
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  • #9
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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  • #10
    “You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
    ― Ira Glass
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  • #11
    “One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
    ― Tim Burton
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  • #12
    “Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
    He liked her a lot.
    He liked her cute figure,
    he thought she was hot.

    But could a flame ever burn
    for a match and a stick?
    It did quite literally;
    he burned up quick.”
    ― Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
    tags: absurd
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  • #13
    “Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.”
    ― Tim Burton, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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  • #14
    Paige Toon
    “It's strange how the people you care about least, sometimes know you the best. You let your guard down with them because you don't mind that they see you, warts and all.”
    ― Paige Toon, Chasing Daisy
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  • #15
    Paige Toon
    “Yes, I still call them flip-flops, even though I've lived in Australia for ten years. I can't accept that thongs aren't something that get stuck up the crack in your bum.”
    ― Paige Toon, Pictures of Lily
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    Paige Toon
    “She was halfway on the tipsy train to drunk when I left, but now she has clearly reached the station.”
    ― Paige Toon, Baby Be Mine
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
    tags: gods, humour, religion, stupidity
    1276 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs. ”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
    tags: dragons, maps
    349 likes

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  • #19
    Terry Pratchett
    “My name is immaterial,' she said.
    That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
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  • #20
    Terry Pratchett
    “If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
    tags: humour
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  • #21
    Terry Pratchett
    “Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!"
    "Can't we do anything about it?"
    "No!"
    "Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
    tags: humor
    92 likes

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  • #23
    Terry Pratchett
    “Magic never dies. It merely fades away.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
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  • #24
    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
    177103 likes

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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
    130158 likes

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  • #26
    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
    128906 likes

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  • #27
    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
    148414 likes

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  • #28
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #29
    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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  • #30
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114368 likes



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