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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Audre Lorde
    “If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    Emily Dickinson
    “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: life, love
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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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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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
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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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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook
    tags: strength, worry
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    Lawrence Durrell
    “Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
    ― Lawrence Durrell, Justine
    tags: silence
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    L. Frank Baum
    “There is no place like home.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
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    Alan Bennett
    “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
    tags: books
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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Fall of Atlantis
    tags: despair, hope
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    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, True Love
    tags: love, weirdness
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    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “I am a part of all that I have met.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson
    tags: attitude, inspirational
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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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    Ted Hughes
    “The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
    ― Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes
    tags: fear, heart, love, regret
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    William Ernest Henley
    “It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate:
    I am the captain of my soul.”
    ― William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death
    tags: captain, fate, master
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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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    Gene Stratton-Porter
    “If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”
    ― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost
    tags: industriousness, inspirational
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    Jennifer Egan
    “I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
    tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Do a loony-goony dance
    'Cross the kitchen floor,
    Put something silly in the world
    That ain't been there before.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic
    tags: dance, silly
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: inspirational, love
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