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    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
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    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville
    tags: misattributed
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    Franz Kafka
    “Books are a narcotic.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Maya Angelou
    “I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: home
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  • #6
    “It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.”
    ― Amy Poehler
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  • #7
    “Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix”
    ― Amy Poehler
    tags: truth, women
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  • #8
    “I know enough now to know I know nothing.”
    ― Amy Poehler, Yes Please
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  • #9
    “Instead of asking students to "declare their major" we should ask students to "list what they will do anything to avoid". It just makes a lot more sense.”
    ― Amy Poehler
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  • #10
    “The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone...”
    ― Amy Poehler, Yes Please
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  • #11
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: friend, honesty
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  • #12
    “You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
    ― Ira Glass
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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  • #14
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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    Edith Wharton
    “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
    ― Edith Wharton
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    E.B. White
    “Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
    ― E.B. White
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177118 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: humor, insanity
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    Raymond Carver
    “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
    ― Raymond Carver
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  • #21
    Anne Lamott
    “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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    Norton Juster
    “I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear.
    "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock.
    Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
    tags: milo, tock, wisdom, words
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    Norton Juster
    “But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
    tags: life
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  • #24
    Jenny Lawson
    “Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax. In fact, I should probably charge money to all the normal people to simply not go to your social functions and ruin them”
    ― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
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    Henry Miller
    “Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
    ― Henry Miller
    tags: life
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    Elie Wiesel
    “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: abuse, abuser, conspiracy-of-silence, oppressor, torment, trauma, victim
    327 likes

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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: books, reading
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: america, history, immigration, politics, revolution, united-states, usa
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    Jami Attenberg
    “What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?”
    ― Jami Attenberg, The Middlesteins
    tags: book-clubs, food
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  • #30
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: books, education, exams, reading, school, tests, textbooks
    32 likes



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