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“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
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Maya Angelou,
Letter to My Daughter
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“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
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James Branch Cabell,
The Silver Stallion
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#3
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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Albert Einstein
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#4
“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
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Nick Hornby,
How to Be Good
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#5
“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
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Robert J. Sawyer,
Calculating God
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#6
“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
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Christopher Morley,
Pipefuls
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bibliophilia
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books
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#7
“The time to make up your mind about people, is never.”
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Philip Barry,
The Philadelphia Story: A Comedy in Three Acts
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tracy-lord
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#8
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
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Robert Fulghum,
True Love
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#9
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
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E.L. Doctorow
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writing
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#10
“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
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Glen Cook,
Sweet Silver Blues
tags:
morning
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waking-up
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#11
“He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.”
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Val McDermid,
Kick Back
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humor
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#12
“When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.”
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Philip Kerr,
March Violets
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