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    “‎Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I'll tell you that.”
    ― Bill Bryson
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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  • #5
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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  • #6
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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  • #7
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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  • #8
    Marilyn Monroe
    “A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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  • #10
    Beth Harbison
    “She thought about Cheryl’s contention that this was young love, and about how she’d feel if they were ever to break up and she had to look back on this moment as an episode in a life that was full of people she didn’t even know now. The thought made her want to cry.”
    ― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me
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  • #11
    Beth Harbison
    “I think things ultimately work out the way they're supposed to, even if it's not always the most comfortable, cushy way.”
    ― Beth Harbison, Shoe Addicts Anonymous
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  • #12
    Beth Harbison
    “I missed the idea of him more than he himself.”
    ― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me
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  • #13
    Beth Harbison
    “Who they are today isn't who they were then.”
    ― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me
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  • #14
    Beth Harbison
    “I think its better to do whatever is going to make you feel the most peaceful and happy. - Shoe Addicts Anonymous”
    ― Beth Harbison
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  • #15
    Beth Harbison
    “I had to work out that he was always going to break my heart as long as I was willing to let him in.”
    ― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me
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  • #16
    Beth Harbison
    “Trust that things do work out by themselves sometimes.”
    ― Beth Harbison, Shoe Addicts Anonymous
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  • #17
    Beth Harbison
    “Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.”
    ― Beth Harbison
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  • #18
    Beth Harbison
    “And I could go the rest of my life like this, don't get me wrong. This was reality and I'd certainly learned to adapt to that reality. I didn't love it, I'd never love it, but I lived with it pretty well.”
    ― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me
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  • #19
    George R.R. Martin
    “A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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  • #20
    Caitlin Moran
    “When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.”
    ― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
    tags: clothes, women
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  • #21
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
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  • #22
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
    23056 likes

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  • #23
    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
    tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words
    20038 likes

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  • #24
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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  • #25
    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
    tags: irony, life, loneliness
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  • #26
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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  • #27
    Courtney Summers
    “You know all the ways you can kill a girl?

    God, there are so many.”
    ― Courtney Summers, All the Rage
    tags: contemp-ya, contemporary, sexual-assault, ya-lit
    140 likes

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  • #28
    Courtney Summers
    “I want to shove the question down his throat until he chokes on it.”
    ― Courtney Summers, All the Rage
    tags: insensibility, rage
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  • #29
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: humbert-humbert, love
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  • #30
    Daphne du Maurier
    “I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.”
    ― Daphne duMaurier, Rebecca
    tags: first-love
    933 likes



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