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    Nora Ephron
    “When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.”
    ― Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
    tags: book, dark-side, die, end, finish, first, humor, know, last-page, read
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: childhood-memory
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    Frank McCourt
    “He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
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    Frank McCourt
    “It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
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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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    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.”
    ― Mary Anne Radmacher
    tags: courage, inspirational, perseverance
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    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: greatness
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    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: greatness
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    Albert Einstein
    “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
    tags: greatness
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    “I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.”
    ― Lady Gaga
    tags: delusional, greatness, star
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    Steve Maraboli
    “You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: fearless, greatness, inspirational, life, motivational, purpose-of-life, self-empowerment, success
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: arrogance, greatness, humility, inadequacy, insecurity, wisdom-inspirational, wisdom-quote
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  • #14
    “Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.”
    ― Cher
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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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    Susanna Kaysen
    “Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends.”
    ― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
    tags: crazy, friendship, insanity, madness
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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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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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    J.M. Barrie
    “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: faith, life, pixie-dust, trust
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: goodbye
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: sacrifice
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    J.M. Barrie
    “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: happiness
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    J.M. Barrie
    “The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
    ― J.M. Barrie
    tags: inspirational
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: gender-stereotypes
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    J.M. Barrie
    “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
    ― J.M. Barrie
    tags: memory
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