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    Albert Schweitzer
    “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: inspirational, life, spiritual, uplifting
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    Graham Parke
    “I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.”
    ― Graham Parke, Unspent Time
    tags: humor, philosophy, weird
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    Amy Sedaris
    “I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge
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  • #4
    “I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.”
    ― Pete McCarthy, McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland
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    Colleen Hoover
    “Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Slammed
    tags: life
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    Jennifer Crusie
    “If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
    -Gwen Goodnight”
    ― Jennifer Crusie, Faking It
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    Jennifer Crusie
    “I'm Min's fairy godmother, Charm Boy,' Liza said, frowning down at him. 'And if you don't give her a happily ever after, I'm going to come back and beat you to death with a snow globe.'

    What happened to "bibbity bobbity boo"?' Cal asked Min.

    That was Disney, honey,' Min said. 'It wasn't a documentary.”
    ― Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me
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    Carol Shields
    “Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
    ― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love
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  • #9
    “I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.”
    ― Michael J. Fox
    tags: excelence, life-message, perfection
    308 likes

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  • #10
    Cleo Coyle
    “Read with joy!”
    ― Cleo Coyle
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    Elizabeth Lynn Casey
    “Since when did you start plucking books off the children's shelf, Leona?”
    ― Elizabeth Lynn Casey
    tags: sewing
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    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
    ― Gilda Radner
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    Bella Andre
    “Suddenly, he had to ask himself, was love at first sight actually possible”
    ― Bella Andre, Kissing Under the Mistletoe
    tags: best-quotes-about-love, contemporary-romance, families, love, romantic-quotes, steamy-romance
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    Tracy Weber
    “Don’t get me wrong. I like dogs. I love them, in fact. It’s their human counterparts I could sometimes do without.”
    ― Tracy Weber, Murder Strikes a Pose
    tags: dogs
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    Tracy Weber
    “Most people think yoga is simply a form of exercise, but as you know, it’s much deeper than that. It’s about mindfulness, about focus. It helps us see things as they truly are.”
    ― Tracy Weber, Murder Strikes a Pose
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    James Herriot
    “If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”
    ― James Herriot , All Creatures Great and Small
    tags: animals, gratitude, love, loyalty, soul
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    Susan Ee
    “I look up to say something but he puts his finger to my lips and whispers, “Don’t talk. You’ll just spoil my fantasy of rescuing an innocent damsel in distress as soon as you open your mouth.”
    ― Susan Ee, World After
    tags: humor, penryn, raffe
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93569 likes

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    W.C. Fields
    “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
    ― W.C. Fields
    tags: labels, names
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    Amy Tan
    “Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
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    Bobbie Ann Mason
    “One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
    ― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories
    tags: cats
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Josephine Angelini
    “Funny how quickly the mind moves, but how slowly time does when you’re in pain.”
    ― Josephine Angelini, Trial by Fire
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    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
    ― Barbara W. Tuchman
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    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: acceptance, friendship
    5097 likes

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    Leslie Marmon Silko
    “But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
    ― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
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    Ai Qing
    “Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.”
    ― Ai Qing
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    Harper Lee
    “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: writing-advice
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    Francisco Cândido Xavier
    “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
    ― Chico Xavier
    tags: inspirational, life-lessons
    3982 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
    4800 likes



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