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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window
    tags: humor-cats-allergies
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: cheese, poetry
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    Leo Rosten
    “O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
    ― Leo Rosten
    tags: adulthood, fairy-tales
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    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
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    François Mauriac
    “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
    ― Francois Mauriac
    tags: books, literacy, reading
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    Jack London
    “He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
    ― Jack London, The Call of the Wild
    tags: joy, life, nature
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    Terry McMillan
    “Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
    ― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts
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    Howard Nemerov
    “Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
    ― Howard Nemerov
    tags: humor, knowledge, literature, writing
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    Michael Cunningham
    “The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
    tags: flight, flying
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun
    tags: love
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    John Milton
    “For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
    ― John Milton, Areopagitica
    tags: books, censorship, ideas, intellect
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    Jennifer Donnelly
    “Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”
    ― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
    tags: family
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    Ogden Nash
    “Tonight’s December thirty-first,
    Something is about to burst.
    The clock is crouching, dark and small,
    Like a time bomb in the hall.
    Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
    Duck! Here comes another year!”
    ― Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On
    tags: december-31, new-year-s-eve, new-years, new-years-eve
    2034 likes

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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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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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    Jasper Fforde
    “If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten
    tags: life, world
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    Carl Sandburg
    “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
    ― Carl Sandburg
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
    ― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu
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    Walter Mosley
    “A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
    ― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall
    tags: reading
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    Instead of heading for a big mental breakdown, I decided to have a small breakdown
    “Instead of heading for a big mental breakdown, I decided to have a small breakdown every Tuesday evening.”
    ― Graham Parke, No Hope for Gomez!
    tags: breakdown, funny, humor, mental, philosophy, quirky
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    Vita Sackville-West
    “Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.”
    ― Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
    tags: correspondence, love, writers
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    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa, Poems
    tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring
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    Elaine May
    “You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
    ― Elaine May
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon
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