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#1

“Oh, the cleverness of me!”
― James M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: peter-pan-clever-arrogance

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#2

“A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.”
― James Herriot

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“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

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#4

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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#5

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

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#6

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari

tags: literature

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#7

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

tags: starting, working

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#8

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

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#9

“Be obscure clearly.”
― E.B. White

tags: on-writing

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#10

“Meow” means “woof” in cat.”
― George Carlin

tags: animals, cats, dogs, humor, language

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#11

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain

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#12

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect

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#13

“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
― Mark Twain

tags: animals, cats, dogs, grace, reticence

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#14

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
― Will Rogers

tags: afterlife, death, dogs, heaven

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#15

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

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#16

“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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