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    Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
    ― Margaret Wolfe Hamilton Hungerford
    tags: life
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    Lauren Weisberger
    “Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be *us*.”
    ― Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada
    tags: movie
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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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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    Christopher Moore
    “People, generally, suck.”
    ― Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
    tags: humor
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    Anaïs Nin
    “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
    ― Anais Nin
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    Alan Moore
    “People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: democracy, equality, government, misattributed
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Jon Stewart
    “I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.”
    ― Jon Stewart
    tags: canada, funny
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing
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    Helvy Tiana Rosa
    “You are what you write.”
    ― Helvy Tiana Rosa, Risalah Cinta
    tags: writing
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    Meg Cabot
    “Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
    ― Meg Cabot
    tags: writing
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    Henri Matisse
    “Creativity takes courage. ”
    ― Henri Matisse
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
    7975 likes

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    Stephen Colbert
    “If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.”
    ― Stephen Colbert
    tags: humor, isolationism, political-philosophy, politics
    639 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: humor, writing
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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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    Oliver James
    “Music is my higher power”
    ― Oliver James
    tags: music, religion
    472 likes

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    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
    8659 likes

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    Jon Stewart
    “If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us?”
    ― Jon Stewart
    tags: absurd, good-questions
    307 likes

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    Jon Stewart
    “Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
    ― Jon Stewart
    tags: absurd, organized-religion, paradox, religion
    1096 likes

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    Stephen Colbert
    “Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.”
    ― Stephen Colbert
    tags: life
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    Quentin Crisp
    “The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.”
    ― Quentin Crisp
    tags: life, teenagers
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    Dorothy Parker
    “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: empty-nest, humor, motherhood, parenthood, parenting
    402 likes

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    Fran Lebowitz
    “In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
    ― Fran Lebowitz
    tags: algebra, education, humor, mathematics
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
    42803 likes

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    Cornelia Funke
    “Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: inspirational
    4501 likes

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    Cornelia Funke
    “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
    tags: inkheart
    2902 likes



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