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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177073 likes

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  • #3
    “Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
    ― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock
    tags: nancy-drew
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
    tags: clock, future, past, possibilities, ticking, time
    2583 likes

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  • #5
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93523 likes

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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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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60259 likes

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  • #8
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Jarod Kintz
    “Just to show my dad that I think he's number one, I bought him a urinal cake for his birthday.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me
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  • #10
    Connie Willis
    “That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
    ― Connie Willis, Passage
    tags: death, life, literature, messages
    1567 likes

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  • #11
    Susan Sontag
    “I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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  • #12
    Stephen King
    “Your hair is winter fire
    January embers
    My heart burns there, too.”
    ― Stephen King, It
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  • #13
    Randy Pausch
    “No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: adversity, hard-times, inspiration
    909 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: achievement, adversity, easy, effort, envy, lives
    1397 likes

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  • #15
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
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  • #16
    Jean Genet
    “Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
    ― Jean Genet
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    Stephen King
    “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: horror
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    Alberto Manguel
    “Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
    ― Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
    tags: inspirational, readers, readers-and-writers, reading, reading-books, reasons-for-reading
    594 likes

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    Eça de Queirós
    “Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.”
    ― Eça de Queirós
    tags: diapers, politics
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  • #20
    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: growing-up, illusions, life
    2058 likes

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  • #21
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
    18125 likes

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  • #22
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: attitude, fire, hope, inspirational, persistence
    872 likes



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