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    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    ― Annie Proulx
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Eoin Colfer
    “It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
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    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
    tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure
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    J.K. Rowling
    “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
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    Ivan Turgenev
    “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev
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    Anthony Burgess
    “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
    ― anthony burgess
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    Nora Ephron
    “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: reading
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    John W. Campbell Jr.
    “History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
    ― John W. Campbell Jr.
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    Brian Jacques
    “Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
    ― Brian Jacques, Redwall
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    Nora Roberts
    “Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
    ― Nora Roberts, Vision in White
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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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    Edna O'Brien
    “In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
    ― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
    tags: comment, depth, emotion, inadequacy
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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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    Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
    “Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
    ― Jean Paul
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
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    Jean Craighead George
    “Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”
    ― Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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