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    Frank Zappa
    “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: be-yourself, life, self-determination
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    Frank Zappa
    “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: education, sex
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    Frank Zappa
    “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: open-mindedness, simile
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    Frank Zappa
    “Information is not knowledge.
    Knowledge is not wisdom.
    Wisdom is not truth.
    Truth is not beauty.
    Beauty is not love.
    Love is not music.
    Music is THE BEST.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: music
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    Frank Zappa
    “Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: humor-jazz, music
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    Frank Zappa
    “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
    ― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
    tags: music
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    Frank Zappa
    “Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
    Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: hair, humor, retort
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    Frank Zappa
    “Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.”
    ― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
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    Frank Zappa
    “I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: frank-zappa, originality, people, weird
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    Mark Twain
    “Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: atheism, inspirational
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  • #11
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: art, inspiration, love, strength
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: stars-dreams
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: art, love
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
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    Brian Selznick
    “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
    ― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
    tags: dreamers, magic, mermaids, travel, wizard
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
    tags: travel
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    Jack Kerouac
    “What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: adventure, goodbye, travel
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: goals, journey, travel
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    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: discovery, travel
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    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
    ― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
    tags: sun-drenched, travel
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: anger, books, friends, greedy, life, loneliness, man, myself, selfish, travel, woman, work, write
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    Judith Thurman
    “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”
    ― Judith Thurman
    tags: dreamer, explore, travel
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    Anna Quindlen
    “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, reading, travel
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    Douglas Adams
    “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: airports, humor, travel
    803 likes



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