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    Suzanne Collins
    “Some walks you have to take alone.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
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    John Marsden
    “Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.”
    ― John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began
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    Anne Frank
    “Memories mean more to me than dresses.”
    ― Anne Frank
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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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
    “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

    There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: british, humor, science-fiction, social-commentary, thumb, towel
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    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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    Douglas Adams
    “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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    Douglas Adams
    “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: atheism, religion, skeptic
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    Douglas Adams
    “This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: life, sci-fi
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    Douglas Adams
    “I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: atheism, intelligence
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    Douglas Adams
    “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: airports, humor, travel
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    Douglas Adams
    “What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
    "Ask a glass of water!”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: drunk, humour, jokes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
    tags: kindlehighlight
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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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    Douglas Adams
    “I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
    1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
    2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
    3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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    Douglas Adams
    “There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: psychology
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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    James Branch Cabell
    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    ― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion
    tags: optimism, pessimism
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    Kingsley Amis
    “Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
    ― Kingsley Amis
    tags: consciousness
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  • #25
    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
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    Stephen King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Harper Lee
    “Atticus, he was real nice."

    "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: inspirational
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    Harper Lee
    “Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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  • #29
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: on-writing
    2181 likes



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