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#1

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

tags: inspirational

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#2

“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: conscience, innocence

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#3

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.”
― Charlie Schultz

tags: charlie-brown, life

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#4

“To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

tags: healing, insanity, sanity, transcendence

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#5

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#6

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#7

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology

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#8

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne

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#9

“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading

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#10

“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: gibe, insult

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#11

“If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
― Groucho marx

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#12

“Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: funny, innuendo

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#13

“Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.”
― Groucho Marx

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#14

“Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?”
― Groucho Marx

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#15

“There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says "yes" you know he is a crook.”
― Groucho Marx

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#16

“Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.”
― Groucho Marx

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#17

“If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: humor

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#18

“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: women

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#19

“Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: sarcastic-humor

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#20

“Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does”
― Groucho Marx

tags: new-york-city, writers

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#21

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

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#22

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

tags: craft, inspirational, muriel-rukeyser, writers

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#23

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#24

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
― Stephen King

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#25

“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#26

“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
― Stephen King , The Dark Tower

tags: happy-endings

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#27

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

tags: influence, life, teaching

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#28

“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: writing

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#29

“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

tags: ethics, morality

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#30

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women

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