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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
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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
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    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
    tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
    7659 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald
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    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
    tags: love
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: participate, responsibility, stop-terrorism, terror, terrorism
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  • #10
    Karen M. McManus
    “I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up because they don't expect to get caught.”
    ― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying
    tags: mistakes, one-of-us-is-lying, people, thriller
    297 likes

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  • #11
    Haruki Murakami
    “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
    ― haruki murakami
    tags: letting-go, life, life-lessons, memories
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: breath, existence
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    Alice Sebold
    “Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
    tags: destiny, dreams, epiphany, re-direction, re-thinking
    1547 likes

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  • #14
    Rosa Luxemburg
    “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
    ― Rosa Luxemburg
    tags: evolution, freedom, history, liberation, progress, struggle
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    Tori Telfer
    “But that’s unfair, because poisoning requires advance planning and the stomach for a drawn-out death scene. You need to look into your victim’s trusting eyes day after day as you slowly snuff out their life.”
    ― Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
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    Toni Morrison
    “Love is never any better than the lover.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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    Alan Moore
    “... and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout: 'Save us!'. And I'll look down and whisper: 'No.”
    ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
    tags: heroes, rorschach, watchmen
    31 likes

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  • #18
    George Eliot
    “It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: music, poetry
    536 likes

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  • #19
    Gail Honeyman
    “Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.”
    ― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
    700 likes

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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six
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    Alan Moore
    “Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: knowledge, life
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    John Fowles
    “I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.”
    ― John Fowles, The Collector
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    John Fowles
    “When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies.”
    ― John Fowles, The Collector
    tags: art, drawing, painting, philosophy, photography
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    Claire C. Holland
    “There is nothing else in this world like realizing you’re going to live and not being sure you can.”
    ― Claire C. Holland, I Am Not Your Final Girl
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    Natsuo Kirino
    “It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.”
    ― Natsuo Kirino, Real World
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    Carla Madeira
    “Mas e o amor? O que é senão um monte de gostar? Gostar de falar, gostar de tocar, gostar de cheirar, gostar de ouvir, gostar de olhar. Gostar de se abandonar no outro. O amor não passa de um gostar de muitos verbos ao mesmo tempo.”
    ― Carla Madeira, Tudo é rio
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  • #27
    Donna Tartt
    “I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
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  • #28
    Aline Bei
    “será que ele prefere não ver?
    imaginar o mundo
    deve ser mais bonito mesmo”
    ― Aline Bei, O peso do pássaro morto
    28 likes



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