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    Warren Ellis
    “Here in Britain, of course, it's Thank Fuck We Got Those Weird Jesus Bastards On The Boat Day”
    ― Warren Ellis
    tags: thanksgiving, twitter
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    Courtney Summers
    “I elbow my way through the mass of people to get to my locker because there's something immensely satisfying about the toughest part of my arm connecting with the softest part of everyone else.”
    ― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be
    tags: ya
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    Neil Gaiman
    “This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    Spider Robinson
    “Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.”
    ― Spider Robinson, Off the Wall at Callahan's
    tags: humor, science-fiction, social-commentary
    379 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
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    Grant Morrison
    “I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.”
    ― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
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    Mike Carey
    “No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.”
    ― Mike Carey, Lucifer, Vol. 2: Children and Monsters
    tags: hell, lucifer
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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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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    Lord Byron
    “But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
    Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
    That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”
    ― Lord George Gordon Byron
    tags: liberty, words
    459 likes

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    Ani DiFranco
    “I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do than survive.”
    ― Ani DiFranco
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  • #13
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: books, censorship, reading
    648 likes

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    John Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
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    George Carlin
    “Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: fighting, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, peace, sex
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    George Carlin
    “I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, humor, patriotism
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    George Carlin
    “I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: grass, hero, heroism, individualism, individuality, nature
    2473 likes

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    George Carlin
    “I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: organized-religion, religion, taxation
    656 likes

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    George Carlin
    “How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: abortion
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “Writers will happen in the best of families.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: family, writers, writing
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    George Orwell
    “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
    ― George Orwell, Why I Write
    tags: writing
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    Carolyn Mackler
    “Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.”
    ― Carolyn Mackler, Love and Other Four-Letter Words
    tags: drop-a-brick
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    Ani DiFranco
    “Taken out of context, I must seem so strange”
    ― Ani DiFranco, Ani DiFranco: Verses
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    Mark Twain
    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, success
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos
    tags: death, life
    17164 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31525 likes

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  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #30
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I write because I cannot NOT write.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
    tags: writing
    36 likes



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