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#1

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: atlas, shrugged

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#2

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

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#3

“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

tags: memories, past

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#4

“There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

tags: children, silence

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#5

“Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.”
― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns

tags: choice, choices, choose, dark, jorg-ancrath, the-broken-empire

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#6

“Still, children hope in ways adults find hard to imagine. They carry their dreams before them, fragile, in both arms, waiting for the world to trip them.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key

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#7

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

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#8

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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#9

“Do for yourself, for no one else will.”
― Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild

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#10

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

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#11

“If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.”
― Iris Johansen, Countdown

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#12

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
― Kathy Acker

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#13

“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

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#14

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
― Jane Green, The Beach House

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#15

“Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

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#16

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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#17

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

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#18

“Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.”
― James Salter, Burning the Days: Recollection

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#19

“Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
― H. Rider Haggard, She

tags: after-death, death, forget, forgetting, immortality, life, live-forever, mortality, sleep

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#20

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
― Mercedes Lackey

tags: humor

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