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    Toni Morrison
    “At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
    ― Toni Morrison
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    Émile Zola
    “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, calling, life
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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
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: ends, perversion, security, suffering
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
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    Neal Stephenson
    “Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.”
    ― Neal Stephenson, Anathem
    tags: beauty, ugliness
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    Neal Stephenson
    “Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.”
    ― Neal Stephenson, Anathem
    tags: humor
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    Neal Stephenson
    “It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.”
    ― Neal Stephenson, Anathem
    tags: expectation, warning
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
    tags: dragons
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do. . . .”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: opportunity
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    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    ― Confucius
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    Charles Dickens
    “And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
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    Tite Kubo
    “The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don't they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want.”
    ― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 17
    tags: humor, soccer, sports
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Jun Mochizuki
    “The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a hot summer's day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts. The mad Queen said, "Off with his head! Off with his head! Off with his head!" Well... that's too bad... no more heads to cut.”
    ― Jun Mochizuki, Pandora Hearts 11巻
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: better
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: handmaid-s-tale
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  • #23
    If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
    “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
    ― Chinua Achebe
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    T.F. Hodge
    “Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.”
    ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
    tags: blessings, calamity, chaos, confusion, control, good-intentions, karma, manipulation, quotes, sorcery, wicked, wizardry
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Hell is paved with good intentions.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
    tags: evil, good-intentions, hell, intentions
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: evil, good-intentions, morality
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    Albert Camus
    “The evil that is in the world comes out of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. One the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Plague
    tags: good-intentions, ignorance
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    “Good intentions are not good at all.”
    ― Fritz Chery
    tags: good-intentions, sin
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: good-intentions, hell, human-nature, instinct
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    Michelle Sagara West
    “Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.”
    ― Michelle Sagara West, Cast in Peril
    tags: good-intentions, teela
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