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    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    ― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
    tags: life, pain
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    William Goldman
    “Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: life
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    Philip Pullman
    “I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: cruelty, religion
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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  • #8
    Rebecca Wells
    “It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”
    ― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    tags: life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: cynical, life, truth
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  • #15
    George Burns
    “You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
    ― George Burns
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  • #17
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
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  • #18
    Jack Kerouac
    “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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  • #19
    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
    tags: love
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: love
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    Ken Kesey
    “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
    ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    tags: relationships
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  • #23
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: defend
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    Alice Walker
    “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
    ― alice walker, The Color Purple
    tags: color, god, purple, religion
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  • #25
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #26
    Evelyn Waugh
    “Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh
    tags: punctuality
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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  • #30
    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
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  • #31
    Samuel Beckett
    “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
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  • #32
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
    11452 likes



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