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    Markus Zusak
    “Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    Andy Warhol
    “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
    ― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
    tags: change, initiative, time
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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
    ― Markus Zusak
    tags: book
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    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, True Love
    tags: love, weirdness
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    Markus Zusak
    “Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: truth
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: power-of-words
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    Dr. Seuss
    “So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
    tags: humor, inspirational, success
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    Christopher Paolini
    “Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: bravery, courage, nobility
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Eoin Colfer
    “That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."
    Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things."
    But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror."
    I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?"
    Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code
    tags: cinema, horror-movies, humor, killers, stupidity
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    Dr. Seuss
    “ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
    tags: asap
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    Eoin Colfer
    “If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code
    tags: humor
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Eoin Colfer
    “If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
    tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge
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    Dr. Seuss
    “How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: late, soon, time
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: defend
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
    tags: beauty, david, uglies, westerfeld
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    Isaac Asimov
    “It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
    ― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
    tags: common-sense, perspective, philosophers
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Extras
    tags: destruction, freedom
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    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, So Yesterday
    tags: scott-la, scott-westerfeld, so-yesterday
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    Michael Crichton
    “No one escapes from life alive.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Congo
    tags: death, life
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to”
    ― Scott Westerfeld
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    Michael Crichton
    “All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.”
    ― Michael Crichton, The Lost World
    tags: advice
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Peeps
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    Douglas Adams
    “I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: happiness, rightness
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    Scott Westerfeld
    “Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
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