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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: labels, manners
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: description, language, words
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss
    tags: books, reading
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
    tags: books
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: books, relationships
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: romance, roses
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
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    Ryan North
    “Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.”
    ― Ryan North
    tags: cartoons, humor, science
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is sugar-free Kool-aid, and the only game to play is Monopoly, and none of your friends show up.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss
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    Robert Frost
    “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: education
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    Robert Frost
    “If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: laughter
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    Robert Frost
    “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: poetry
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    Robert Frost
    “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: new-england-wisdom
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    Robert Frost
    “Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: prayer
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    Felicia Day
    “I have dozens of loyal fans! Baker's dozens! …they come in thirteens.”
    ― Felicia Day
    tags: career, humor
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    Laini Taylor
    “Creatures with no dreams of their own can do naught but destroy the dreams of others.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Blackbringer
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    Tad Williams
    “As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.”
    ― Tad Williams
    tags: humor
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
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    Neil Gaiman
    “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: books, bookstore, towns
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: books, gifts
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
    A stately pleasure-dome decree:
    Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
    Through caverns measureless to man
    Down to a sunless sea.”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems
    tags: poetry
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Water, water, everywhere,
    And all the boards did shrink;
    Water, water, everywhere,
    Nor any drop to drink.”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    tags: poetry, sea
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    David Eddings
    “God save us from religion.”
    ― David Eddings
    tags: inspirational, organized-religion, savior
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    Jim Butcher
    “All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight
    tags: billy-borden, humor
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    Piers Anthony
    “When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.”
    ― Piers Anthony, Golem in the Gears
    tags: book-lovers, libraries
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    Jack Layton
    “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.”
    ― Jack Layton
    tags: 2011, august-20, inspirational-quotes
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    Jim Butcher
    “Are you always a smartass?'

    Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: humor, impudence, sarcasm, smartass
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    Jim Butcher
    “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
    ― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
    tags: humor, life, metaphor, zen
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