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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
    Go throw your TV set away,
    And in its place you can install
    A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
    Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    tags: books, humor, television
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    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
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    Sophocles
    “The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
    ― Sophocles
    tags: pain
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    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: evil, good
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    Gregory Maguire
    “Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Gregory Maguire
    “Happy endings are still endings.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch
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    Janet Evanovich
    “He had a lot of muscle and a skill level somewhere between Batman and Rambo.”
    ― Janet Evanovich, To the Nines
    tags: humor
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    Kiera Cass
    “I pranced around the room like a blind moose, but what I lacked in grace I made up for in effort.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Elite
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    Kiera Cass
    “It's the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you," she said simply. "You know that you've found something amazing, and you want to hold on to it forever; and every second after you have it, you fear the moment you might lose it."
    I sighed softly. She was absolutely right.
    Love was beautiful fear.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The Elite
    tags: love
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    Lewis Carroll
    “If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, humor
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'"
    "The mood will pass, sir.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
    tags: appearance, bad-mood, clothes, dejection, humor
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: life
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    John Banville
    “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
    ― John Banville, The Sea
    tags: memories, past
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: desire, life, lost, paradox, tragedy
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, BBC Radio presents Man and superman
    tags: food, gluttony, love
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
    ― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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    Timberlake Wertenbaker
    “The Greeks believed that it was a citizen's duty to watch a play. It was a kind of work in that it required attention, judgement, patience, all the social virtues."

    "And the Greek were conquered by the more practical Romans, Arthur."

    "Indeed, the Romans built their bridges, but they also spent many centuries wishing they were Greeks. And they, after all, were conquered by the barbarians, or by their own corrupt and small spirits.”
    ― Timberlake Wertenbaker
    tags: 1700s, ancient-greeks, ancient-rome, australia, humour, plays, social-values, theatre, transportation
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    Timberlake Wertenbaker
    “It is very good, Wisehammer, it's very well written, but it's too-too-political. It will be considered provocative."

    "You don't want me to say it."

    "Not tonight. We have many people against us."

    "I could tone it down. I could omit 'We left our country for our country's good.'"

    "That's the best line.”
    ― Timberlake Wertenbaker
    tags: 1700s, australia, poetry-quotes, politics, theatre, transportation
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    Timberlake Wertenbaker
    “Unexpected situations are often matched by unexpected virtues, are they not?”
    ― Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good
    tags: belief-in-humanity
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    “Stories? We all spend our lives telling them, about this, about that, about people … But some? Some stories are so good we wish they’d never end. They’re so gripping that we’ll go without sleep just to see a little bit more. Some stories bring us laughter and sometimes they bring us tears … but isn’t that what a great story does? Makes you feel? Stories that are so powerful … they really are with us forever.”
    ― Dustin Hoffman
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    Robert Fulghum
    “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things
    tags: hope, imagination, inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, regrets
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: men-women
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and eat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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