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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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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    L.P. Hartley
    “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
    ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
    tags: history, memories, past
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    Yaa Gyasi
    “This is the problem of history. We cannot know that which we were not there to see and hear and experience for ourselves. We must rely upon the words of others.”
    ― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
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    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, knowledge
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: humor
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    Lee Smith
    “And are we not all “mere guests” upon this whirling earth?”
    ― Lee Smith, Guests on Earth
    tags: life-philosophy
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    Brad Meltzer
    “there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.”
    ― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle
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    Michael Crichton
    “In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
    tags: paperlessism, thoughtlessness
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    Brad Meltzer
    “We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”
    ― Brad Meltzer
    tags: heroes, humanity, life
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    Yaa Gyasi
    “The family is like the forest: if you are outside it is dense; if you are inside you see that each tree has its own position.”
    ― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
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    Michael Crichton
    “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
    ― Michael Crichton, State of Fear
    tags: bigotry, fiction, prejudice, science
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    Edith Wharton
    “A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.”
    ― Edith Wharton
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    Michael Crichton
    “I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
    ― Michael Crichton
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    Yaa Gyasi
    “So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.” The”
    ― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
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    John Keats
    “Touch has a memory.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: memory, touch
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    Yaa Gyasi
    “You want to know what weakness is? Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.”
    ― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
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    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    George Santayana
    “I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.”
    ― George Santayana
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    Anthea Syrokou
    “Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.”
    ― Anthea Syrokou
    tags: arts, beauty-in-life, eventually-julie, fiction, joy-of-life, literature, passion, reading, wisdom, womensfihtion, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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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
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Henry James
    “I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: integrity, self-esteem
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    Emily Ruskovich
    “Kindness that is nothing special is the rarest and most honest.”
    ― Emily Ruskovich, Idaho
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “...you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
    tags: aggravations, letting-go, problems
    166 likes



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