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    Sue Merrell
    “Reporters can't douse flames or soothe burns. They have no control over the horrors they witness. But if they can overcome fear and physical obstacles and wrestle the monster to the page before the sun comes up, it's a victory -- not just for the newspaper staff but for all those sleeping soundly who will find the facts at their fingertips and all those victims whose suffering won't go unnoticed.”
    ― Sue Merrell, Great News Town
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    John Lithgow
    “The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.”
    ― John Lithgow
    tags: acting, broadway, television
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    Sue Grafton
    “You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.”
    ― Sue Grafton, T is for Trespass
    tags: change, drama, kinsey-milhone, poor-baby, sue-grafton, sympathy
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  • #6
    Sue Merrell
    “Losing a mate to death is devastating but it's not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you and walks away, it's an insult beyond comparison.”
    ― Sue Merrell, Great News Town
    tags: death, divorce, love
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  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: iii-2
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  • #8
    Markus Zusak
    “It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.”
    ― Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief
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  • #9
    William McKeen
    “This is where the disillusioned gathered to look for new illusions”
    ― William McKeen, Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key West
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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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    George Carlin
    “The Christians gave Him Sunday, the Jews gave Him Saturday, and the Muslims gave Him Friday. God has a three-day weekend.”
    ― George Carlin
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  • #12
    “I think Saturday may be Latin for "stay in pajamas til noon then eventually motivate yourself to shower and get ready for bed that night.”
    ― Bart Millard
    tags: humor
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  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-taxes
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    Douglas Adams
    “In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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    Richard Hughes
    “Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
    ― Richard Hughes
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    Leif Enger
    “Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.”
    ― Leif Enger
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    Leif Enger
    “We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.”
    ― Leif Enger, Peace Like a River
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    Sue Merrell
    “If the phone rings...then you and I, greedy newshounds that we are, will jump up -- even if it rings during the good part -- and chase that perverse thrill of another big headline, another shocking story. We'll shake our heads that it excites us so, but we will give up sleep, food and love for the story.”
    ― Sue Merrell
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    John Lennon
    “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
    ― John Lennon
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  • #20
    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: inspirational, wonder
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  • #21
    Sue Merrell
    “Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to probably ain't legal.”
    ― Sue Merrell, One Shoe Off
    tags: clean, legal, natural, trust, well-dressed
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    Sue Merrell
    “Christmas makes me schmaltzy. I'm proud to be level-headed, even a little tough most of the time. But once a year I like to believe that peace on earth may be possible and calories don't count.”
    ― Sue Merrell, One Shoe Off
    tags: calories, christmas, peace-on-earth
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    Orson Scott Card
    “She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind
    tags: live-in-the-moment, live-life, sensuality
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  • #24
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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  • #25
    Sue Merrell
    “I don’t know what makes people start wanting each other any more than I know what makes it stop all of a sudden. I just know that when you lose it once, you’ll never take it for granted again”
    ― Sue Merrell, Great News Town
    tags: desire, divorce, loss, love, love-hurts
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  • #26
    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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