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    Alan Moore
    “None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.”
    ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
    tags: graphic-novels
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    James Branch Cabell
    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    ― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion
    tags: optimism, pessimism
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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
    7235 likes

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    Joseph Heller
    “Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
    ― Joseph Heller
    tags: humor
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    Langston Hughes
    “Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.”
    ― Langston Hughes
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Stephen King
    “I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
    ― Stephen King
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    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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    Raven Gregory
    “...Is Wonderland really a wonder...when you have nowhere to land?”
    ― Raven Gregory, Grimm Fairy Tales: Return to Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, wonderland
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    The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
    “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
    ― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts
    tags: alchemy, writing
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    M.J. Croan
    “Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.”
    ― M.J. Croan
    tags: adolescence, growing-up, maturity
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    Sophocles
    “Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
    ― Sophocles
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    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
    tags: intelligence, mind, poverty
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    Quinn Barrett
    “Fiction is the best the self-help book.”
    ― Quinn Barrett
    tags: fiction, quinn-barrett, self-help
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    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: thinking
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    Joe Hill
    “The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”
    ― Joe Hill, Horns
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    Joe Hill
    “Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.”
    ― Joe Hill, Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows
    tags: children
    70 likes

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    Joe Hill
    “All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.”
    ― Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box
    tags: coyne, georgia, judas, lyre, music
    79 likes

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    Wyndham Lewis
    “Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.”
    ― Wyndham Lewis
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    S.G. Browne
    “If you've never woken up from a car accident to discover that your wife is dead and you're an animated, rotting corpse, then you probably wouldn't understand. ”
    ― S.G. Browne, Breathers: A Zombie's Lament
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    S.G. Browne
    “This growing attached to people really sucks.”
    ― S.G. Browne, Lucky Bastard
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    Joan Didion
    “Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
    ― Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
    tags: grammar
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
    6859 likes

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  • #24
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
    11360 likes

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    Nelson Mandela
    “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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  • #30
    Richard Wright
    “Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
    2275 likes



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