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    Gerry Stimmler
    “Writing has significantly improved my ability to lie.”
    ― Gerry Stimmler, Dropped Dead in Kona
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education-knowledge
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    ― Alice Hoffman
    tags: books
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    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower
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    Groucho Marx
    “Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: humor
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    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: change
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: host, ian, jamie, jared, melanie, uncle-jeb, wanda
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    John Steinbeck
    “Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, hatred, understanding
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: librarians
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
    ― Hermann Hesse
    tags: writing
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    Robert Frost
    “I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: disorganized, style-of-living
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
    tags: bible, christianity
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    Gena Showalter
    “There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.”
    ― Gena Showalter, Oh My Goth
    tags: life
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    Rachel Vincent
    “It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it!”
    ― Rachel Vincent
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    Douglas Adams
    “The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
    tags: sanity
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: earth, heaven, heavenly, nature
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    Diane Ackerman
    “I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
    ― Diane Ackerman
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: imagination
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    H.G. Wells
    “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity
    1044 likes

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    Stephen King
    “The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: the-cocktail-party
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    Rebecca Wells
    “Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.”
    ― Rebecca Wells, Little Altars Everywhere
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    Voltaire
    “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: appreciation, gratitude
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes
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    Orson Welles
    “My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
    ― Orson Welles
    tags: dinner, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: spelling
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    Groucho Marx
    “When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: friends, humor, jail
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: creativity, self-confidence, self-doubt
    1662 likes



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