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    Adrienne Rich
    “A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”
    ― Adrienne Rich
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    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    ― Robert Bloch
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    tags: feminism, philosophy
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    Felix Dzerzhinsky
    “Trust, but verify.”
    ― Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
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    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
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    Francis Bacon
    “Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.”
    ― Francis Bacon
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    Francis Bacon
    “There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
    ― Francis Bacon
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Adrienne Rich
    “I feel more helpless with you than without you.”
    ― Adrienne Rich
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    Caryl Churchill
    “I’ll take her no mistake no mister no missed her no mist no miss no me no.”
    ― Caryl Churchill
    tags: deconstruction, differance, posmodernism, puns
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    ― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    tags: life
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Water, water, everywhere,
    And all the boards did shrink;
    Water, water, everywhere,
    Nor any drop to drink.”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    tags: poetry, sea
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Her lips were red, her looks were free,
    Her locks were yellow as gold:
    Her skin was white as leprosy,
    The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
    Who thicks man's blood with cold.”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge , The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Alone, alone, all, all alone,
    Alone on a wide wide sea!
    And never a saint took pity on
    My soul in agony.”
    ― Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    tags: lonliness, pain, poetry, suffering
    138 likes

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    Randall Jarrell
    “Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.”
    ― Randall Jarrell
    tags: art
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?"

    Because I looked for it.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men
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    “For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet.”
    ― Nennius
    tags: history, metaphor
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    Neil Gaiman
    “When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days
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    Kate Chopin
    “There was with her a feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual.”
    ― Kate Chopin, The Awakening
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    Kate Chopin
    “I am no longer one of Mr, Pontellier's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here, Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.”
    ― Kate Chopin, The Awakening
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    Kate Chopin
    “The children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her; who had overpowered and sought to drag her into the soul's slavery for the rest of her days.”
    ― Kate Chopin, The Awakening
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    Henry Van Dyke
    “The shadow by my finger cast
    Divides the future from the past:
    Before it, sleeps the unborn hour,
    In darkness, and beyond thy power.
    Behind its unreturning line,
    The vanished hour, no longer thine:
    One hour alone is in thy hands,-
    The NOW on which the shadow stands.”
    ― Henry Van Dyke
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
    6244 likes



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