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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: imagination
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Dear Jesus, do something.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
    tags: prayer
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature
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    “I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.”
    ― David Gerrold, A Matter for Men
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    Frank Lloyd Wright
    “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
    ― Frank Lloyd Wright
    tags: los-angeles
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    Steven Millhauser
    “All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.”
    ― Steven Millhauser
    tags: life, writing
    60 likes

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    Jeff Buckley
    “my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder"
    lover you should have come over-”
    ― Jeff Buckley
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
    tags: martyr, martyrdom, truth, tyrant
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    Tom Waits
    “Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.”
    ― Tom Waits
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    Tom Waits
    “The big print giveth and the small print taketh away. ”
    ― Tom Waits
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  • #13
    Tom Waits
    “I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.”
    ― Tom Waits
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