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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Cassandra Clare
    “There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: mortal-instruments, romance, teen-fantasy
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    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: love, romance
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    Jessica de la Davies
    “If the world stops spinning, slowing to a crawl. I will continue to dream of you. Until, I no longer dream at all.”
    ― Jessica de la Davies, Slippery When Wet!
    tags: haiku, manuel, poem
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    Samuel Butler
    “Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
    ― Samuel Butler
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: books, reading
    5874 likes

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    Anne Rice
    “Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
    ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
    tags: good-evil
    2872 likes

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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
    5987 likes

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    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    ― Robert Bloch
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  • #10
    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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    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck
    2889 likes

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    Lorraine Hansberry
    “The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
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    Tess Gallagher
    “It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.”
    ― Tess Gallagher
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    Alexander Pope
    “Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
    ― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
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    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Puns are the highest form of literature.”
    ― Alfred Hitchcock
    tags: funny, humor, literature, puns
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    Jack Gilbert
    “Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
    ― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems
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    Sophie Kinsella
    “There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
    ― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
    tags: life, resilience, ruins, truth
    1799 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148591 likes

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    George Orwell
    “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984, human, intellectual, mind, reality
    1670 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “I am excessively diverted.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet
    428 likes

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  • #22
    Youngblood Hawke
    “When I grow old I want to regret the things I've done, not the things I haven't done.”
    ― Youngblood Hawke
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