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    Margaret Mitchell
    “I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't... My dear, I don't give a damn.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151851 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: egotism, zaphod-beeblebrox
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, imagination
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    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: attributed-no-source, humor, misattributed-douglas-adams, wit
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    Douglas Adams
    “A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: life
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    Douglas Adams
    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: design, foolproof, ingenuity
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  • #14
    Winston S. Churchill
    “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor, taste
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    Salman Rushdie
    “We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: friendship, love
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    Salman Rushdie
    “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: banned-books, censorship, free-speech, intellectual-freedom
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    Cecelia Ahern
    “Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.”
    ― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
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    Jennifer Crusie
    “His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. ”
    ― Jennifer Crusie, Charlie All Night
    tags: grammar, humor, politics
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    Dorothy Parker
    “A hangover is the wrath of grapes.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: humour
    359 likes

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    Thomas Harris
    “When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
    tags: hannibal, murder
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: gone-with-the-wind, rhett-butler
    701 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
    5544 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
    tags: death, life
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: books, reading
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    Dante Alighieri
    “There is no greater sorrow
    Than to recall a happy time
    When miserable.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: dante, italian-medieval-poetry, nostalgia, à-la-recherche-du-temps-perdu
    1243 likes

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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119247 likes

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    Groucho Marx
    “While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: money
    967 likes

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    Steve Martin
    “I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: human-nature, humor, unexpected-humor
    301 likes



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