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    Stephen King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Maya Angelou
    “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
    ― maya angelou
    tags: humor, inspirational, life
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    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
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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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    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: human-nature
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    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: darkness, human-nature, moon
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: human-nature
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    Dan Brown
    “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
    tags: desire, fear, human-nature
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: future, human-nature, past
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    Laurie Anderson
    “When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are. ”
    ― Laurie Anderson
    tags: human-nature, identity, men, women
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    Sigmund Freud
    “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: human-nature
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    Sophie Kinsella
    “In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.”
    ― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic & Baby
    tags: human-nature, inspirational, literature, motivational, trust
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: human-nature
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “The more one judges, the less one loves.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal
    tags: human-nature, love
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    George Eliot
    “And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: funny, human-nature
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    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity
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    John Steinbeck
    “And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: country-life, human-nature
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: human-nature
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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.”
    ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
    tags: faith, human-nature, life, sin
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    Aldous Huxley
    “That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies
    tags: equality, sanity
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    Jess C. Scott
    “That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life
    tags: body-image, cyberpunk, materialism, meaning, plastic-surgery, reality, reflection, society, technology
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: affection, communication, heartwarming, human-connections, human-nature, humanism, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, relationships
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
    tags: a-moveable-feast, human-nature
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: charlotte-bronte, human-nature, jane-eyre, life
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    Simone Weil
    “All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
    ― Simone Weil
    tags: human-nature
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    Philip Roth
    “You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.”
    ― Philip Roth, American Pastoral
    tags: human-nature, intelligence
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    W.H. Auden
    “You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”
    ― Wystan Hugh Auden
    tags: human-nature, poetry
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