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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: life
    521 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship, inspirational
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    Terry Pratchett
    “We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
    tags: death, gallows-humor, humor, laughing
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: cynicism, humor, life
    966 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
    4798 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: inspirational
    899 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.”
    ― Bill Waterson
    645 likes

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    Arthur Miller
    “Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
    ― Arthur Miller, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
    tags: regret
    729 likes

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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    tags: curiosity
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    Yahtzee Croshaw
    “Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.”
    ― Yahtzee Croshaw
    tags: criticism, fans, funny-but-true, opinions
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    Yahtzee Croshaw
    “A good story is like a good bowel movement: it's only really satisfying once it's ended, because if you just keep going eventually your body runs out of shit and moves on to pushing all your internal organs out your sphincter until only a foul smelling shell remains and anyone who wants to get into your incredibly long poo gets turned off because they have to go through all the poo up until that point to have the necessary context.”
    ― Yahtzee Croshaw
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
    18015 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
    4628 likes

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    Hiromu Arakawa
    “Enduring and forgiving are two different things. You must not forgive the cruelty of this world. It's our duty as human beings to be angry at injustice. But we must also endure it. Because someone must sever this chain of hatred.”
    ― Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 18
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    Kevin Brockmeier
    “You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core.”
    ― Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer
    tags: aging, humor, joking, questions, wit
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    Peter S. Beagle
    “There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.”
    ― Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place
    tags: honesty
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    Peter S. Beagle
    “Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.”
    ― Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place
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    Junot Díaz
    “Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
    ― Junot Díaz
    tags: elvish, lord-of-the-rings, racism, spanish, white-people
    485 likes

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    William Goldman
    “Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: cynics, humor, life, romantics, writing
    985 likes

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    Barry Hughart
    “I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.”
    ― Barry Hughart, The Story of the Stone
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    Jonathan Tropper
    “To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by withholding your forgiveness until it’s too late is to become divinely fucked up.”
    ― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe
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    Dave Eggers
    “I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.”
    ― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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    China Miéville
    “Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.”
    ― China Miéville
    tags: children, reading, sense-of-wonder
    200 likes

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    C.G. Jung
    “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: psychiatry, sanity
    1041 likes

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    C.G. Jung
    “We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    John Donne
    “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
    ― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose
    tags: community, death, isolation, mankind
    948 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.”
    ― Stephen King, Danse Macabre
    tags: fantasy-fiction, writing
    23 likes



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