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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: catatonia, coma, life
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    Tim O'Brien
    “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
    ― Tim O'Brien
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Alvin Journeyman
    tags: metaphors, truth
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    Markus Zusak
    “He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: heartbreak, love, sad
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: hurt, lewis, misery, sad, truth
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  • #7
    Confucius
    “The funniest people are the saddest ones”
    ― Confucius
    tags: funny, people, sad
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  • #8
    Nick Hornby
    “People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
    ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
    tags: music, sad
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  • #9
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And so it goes...”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: classics
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  • #10
    Markus Zusak
    “It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death
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  • #11
    Markus Zusak
    “A small fact:
    You are going to die....does this worry you?”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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  • #12
    Markus Zusak
    “Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: heart, mortality
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  • #13
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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  • #14
    A.A. Milne
    “Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
    "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
    "And he has Brain."
    "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
    There was a long silence.
    "I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: brain, cleverness, humor, piglet, understanding, winnie-the-pooh
    1127 likes

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  • #15
    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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  • #16
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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  • #17
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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  • #18
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Fucking was how babies were made.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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  • #19
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
    tags: breakfast-of-champions
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #21
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “To be is to do - Socrates

    To do is to be - Sartre

    Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor
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  • #22
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: high-school, terror
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  • #23
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
    tags: cat, cat-s, cradle, kurt, vonnegut
    611 likes

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  • #24
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
    42028 likes

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  • #25
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
    24270 likes

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  • #26
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
    9118 likes



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