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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace and Other Stories
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    “I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
    ― Madonna
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    Patti Smith
    “Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.

    - Gloria”
    ― Patti Smith, Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, After Dark
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: jordan-baker
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    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
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    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    ― J. D. Salinger
    tags: salinger, stories
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Rick Riordan
    “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
    tags: love
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: education, marriage
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    Haruki Murakami
    “People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward”
    ― Haruki Murakami, After Dark
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    Tennessee Williams
    “A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof
    tags: cages, prayer, wild-at-heart
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Harper Lee
    “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: alienation, angst, life, teenager
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    Mikhail Bakunin
    “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
    ― Mikhail Bakunin
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, creativity, motivational, picasso, rules, writing
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    Gail Sheehy
    “If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
    ― Gail Sheehy
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    Bette Davis
    “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
    ― Bette Davis
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes, women
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    Gloria Steinem
    “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: equality, feminism, humanity, men, women
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    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: change, grief, loss, revelation
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    John Green
    “But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: tfios, the-fault-in-our-stars
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    John Green
    “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: johngreen, lookingforalaska
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    John Green
    “Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    John Green
    “Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: francois-rabelais, last-words
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    John Green
    “When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    Mo Willems
    “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
    ― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
    tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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