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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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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
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    Jean de la Fontaine
    “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
    ― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
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    Scott J. Toney
    “There is no rest for the literary!”
    ― Scott Toney
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    Scott J. Toney
    “If you never play with fire, then you'll never keep warm.”
    ― Scott Toney
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Friends don't count the cost of favors.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Danse Macabre
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    “He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.”
    ― Lynn Viehl, Private Demon
    tags: humor, pride-and-prejudice
    76 likes

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    Ivan Amberlake
    “The only thing that holds you back is your certainty that your abilities are limited. You need to break that belief.”
    ― Ivan Amberlake, The Beholder
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  • #11
    “When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.”
    ― Barney Stinson
    tags: humor, inspirational
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    Shamus McCarty
    “When approaching a prospective human, first ask them what their name is.

    * If it replies "Brains," blow its fucking head off.
    * If it replies "Brian," ask it again, as you may have encountered a zombie with a speech impediment, or a zombie that was mildly retarded in life.
    * Keep in mind that it is entirely possible that you did encounter a human named "Brian.”
    ― Etienne Guerin DeForest, The Zombie Survival Guide: How to Live Like a King After the Outbreak
    tags: assholery, funny-quotes, humor, zombie, zombie-apocalypse, zombies
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    Shamus McCarty
    “Fucking GUNS are fucking AWESOME and when you SHOOT them at SHIT, they fucking KILL it!”
    ― Etienne Guerin DeForest, Texas Biker Zombies From Outer Space
    tags: guns, zombies
    12 likes

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    D.E.M. Emrys
    “You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.”
    ― D.E.M. Emrys
    tags: doubt, inspirational, writing
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    J. Cornell Michel
    “Zombies don't discriminate; they'll eat any brain they can sink their infected teeth into. I'm sure my unique brain tastes the same as a normal brain. Actually, mine might be slightly tastier." -Jordan”
    ― J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution
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    Molière
    “We die only once, and for such a long time.”
    ― Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
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    C.J. Roberts
    “I wanted to cry for wanting to cry.”
    ― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark
    tags: captive-in-the-dark, crying, truths
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    Claire C. Riley
    “You and I, Mia. We have needs that must be attended. I will look after yours, and you will look after mine.” He sighs, and his fingers move to his suit jacket and deftly undoes the buttons, letting it fall open to reveal a smart black shirt and tie underneath. “I’ve waited for this moment for so long.”
    ― Claire C Riley
    tags: love, lust, obsession, vampire
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    Stephen King
    “I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. ”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing-terror
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    Mark Cain
    “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
    ― Mark Cain
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    K.A. Perkins
    “How can I work out where I’m going if I can’t work out where I am?”
    ― K A Perkins, Dead Reckoning
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    Georgette Heyer
    “As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
    ― Georgette Heyer, Venetia
    tags: desires, promises
    1678 likes

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    James Jones
    “That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
    ― James Jones, From Here to Eternity
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    “We’d all lived through our own horrors, and whether they showed on our skin or not, we all bore scars, didn’t we?”
    ― Madeline Sheehan, Thicker Than Blood
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
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    Ker Dukey
    “She is so feisty I can’t decide if I want to squeeze her throat and watch her eyes gloss over with tears, or rip her tiny shorts off and bury my dick inside her, making her scream, making her so fucking dirty she’ll never get clean.”
    ― Ker Dukey, Empathy
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
    which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
    because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
    Every angel is terrible.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
    tags: beauty, inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: dark, stars
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    Claire C. Riley
    “Somewhere, buried beneath the blur of blood and cries, behind the folds of insanity, the truth was waiting for her.’ - Fragments of Delores coming May 25th 2020”
    ― Claire C. Riley, Fragments of Delores
    tags: emotional-suspense, romantic-suspense, thriller-mystery, thriller-romance, thriller-suspense
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    Claire C. Riley
    “The grim reaper was waiting for me, scythe in hand, ready to drag me to wherever dead men go to pay for their sins.
    And I had sinned plenty.'
    Beast - Tame his Beast coming June 18th”
    ― Claire C. Riley, Tame His Beast Part 1
    tags: age-gap-romance, alpha-male-romance, biker-romance, enemies-to-lovers, mc-romance
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