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    “No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.”
    ― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
    tags: anger, boredom, grief, happiness
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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    Richard Francis Burton
    “Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
    from none but self expect applause.
    He noblest lives and noblest dies
    who makes and keeps his self-made laws.”
    ― Sir Richard Francis Burton
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    Anthony Bourdain
    “I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”
    ― Anthony Bourdain
    tags: admiration, disagreement
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    Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
    “Deciding what you're not before you decide what you are let's you stand strong in your own category”
    ― Ahmir Questlove Thompson, Creative Quest
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    “Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.”
    ― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
    tags: friendship, homesickness
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    Voltaire
    “Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: books, reading
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    Jon Krakauer
    “Common sense is no match for the voice of God.”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
    tags: faith, god, mormon, religion
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Black as night, sweet as sin.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
    tags: anansi, boys, coffee
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  • #11
    Anthony Bourdain
    “your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
    ― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
    tags: body, food
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    Richard P. Rumelt
    “It is hard to show your skill as a sailor when there is no wind.”
    ― Richard P. Rumelt, Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
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    “He did not run from his grief, nor did he deny its existence. He could study his grief from a distance, like a scientist observing animals. He embraced it, accepted it, acknowledged that it would never go away. It was as much a part of him as any pleasant feeling. Perhaps even more so.”
    ― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I am frightened of nothing."
    "Nothing?"
    "Nothing."
    "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?"
    "Absolutely terrified of it."
    "I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?"
    "No, I most definitely would not.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
    tags: pain
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    Jen Sincero
    “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.”
    ― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
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    Douglas Preston
    “The truth shall make you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
    ― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Gideon's Sword
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    Mark Manson
    “The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience. (p.9)”
    ― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: catatonia, coma, life
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    Voltaire
    “The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Jen Sincero
    “If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.”
    ― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
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    Stephen King
    “Sometimes dead is better”
    ― Stephen King, Pet Sematary
    tags: creed, dead, death, undead
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    Mark Manson
    “Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.
    Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible, but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it. To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a fuck about the pain, you become unstoppable." ~~~~ Mark Manson”
    ― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
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    Stephen King
    “The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.”
    ― Stephen King, Pet Sematary
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    William Goldman
    “Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: cynics, humor, life, romantics, writing
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    Criss Jami
    “Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: activist, civil-rights, duty, forgiveness, freedom, grace, injustice, justice, mercy, punishment
    73 likes

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    Katherine Paterson
    “It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.”
    ― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
    tags: scared, smart
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    Stephen King
    “Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.”
    ― Stephen King, Pet Sematary
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    Stephen King
    “Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.”
    ― Stephen King, Pet Sematary
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: bravery, catholic, catholic-author, christian, citizen, citizenship, corruption, courage, defending-your-country, democracy, free-speech, freedom, freedom-of-speech, gadfly, injustice, justice, not-in-my-name, patriot, patriotic, patriotism, politics, protesting, protests, speak-out, speak-up, speak-up-and-step-up, speaking-out, speaking-up, standing-up, truth, unpatriotic, whistle-blower, whistle-blowers, whistle-blowing
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