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    Anne Frank
    “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Alice Walker
    “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
    ― alice walker, The Color Purple
    tags: color, god, purple, religion
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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
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    Jules Verne
    “We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
    ― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
    tags: books, reading
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    Ralph Ellison
    “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: control, defeat, humanity, life
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook
    tags: strength, worry
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    Philip Roth
    “Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
    ― Philip Roth
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    Katherine Anne Porter
    “The past is never where you think you left it.”
    ― Katherine Anne Porter
    tags: past
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    E.B. White
    “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E. B. White
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Do a loony-goony dance
    'Cross the kitchen floor,
    Put something silly in the world
    That ain't been there before.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic
    tags: dance, silly
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: happiness
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    John Mortimer
    “Soapy Sam looked as though he had just sat down on a favourite armchair which had gone missing.”
    ― John Mortimer, Rumpole à la Carte
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    John Mortimer
    “I sent out words like soldiers to battle and they never returned.”
    ― John Mortimer, Rumpole à la Carte
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    Booker T. Washington
    “Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
    ― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery
    tags: charity, compassion, happiness, helping-others, service
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “I heard the bells on Christmas Day
    Their old, familiar carols play,
    And wild and sweet
    The words repeat
    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: christmas
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    Gerald G. Griffin
    “Good has become bastardized, made to look evil by evil claiming to be good until both good and evil are lost in the mix."
    Griffin, Of Good And Evil”
    ― Gerald Griffin
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    Lydia Maria Child
    “Over the river and through the wood
    To grandfather's house we go”
    ― Lydia Maria Francis Child
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
    tags: autumn, baking, fall, first-frost
    2057 likes

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    Emily Hahn
    “Nobody said not to go.”
    ― Emily Hahn
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Carl Sagan
    “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Contact
    tags: optimism, seti, universe
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    Glendon Swarthout
    “The weather wouldn't settle down. It would rain cats and dogs, then stop, then drip awhile, then stop while it made up its mind what to do next.”
    ― Glendon Swarthout, The Homesman
    tags: april, april-showers, funny, rain, spring, weather
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    Katharine Hepburn
    “The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.”
    ― Katherine Hepburn - Stage Door (1937)
    tags: death, flowers, life
    42 likes



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