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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist
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    Bram Stoker
    “We learn from failure, not from success!”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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    Bram Stoker
    “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
    ― Bram Stoker
    tags: dracula
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    Becky Albertalli
    “Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.”
    ― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
    tags: glbt, simon-spier
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    Stieg Larsson
    “Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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    Drew Ferguson
    “For God sake, quirky isn't something you date; it's something you make fun of until it totally loses it, runs to its bedroom, throws itself face down on its Barbie comforter, and sobs into its diary about how everyone's so mean.”
    ― Drew Ferguson, The Screwed Up Life of Charlie the Second
    tags: humor
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    Lord Byron
    “For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
    tags: fiction, life, lord-byron, on-fiction, strange, truth
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    Steven Saylor
    “Men like Caesar and Pompey--they're not heroes, Meto. They're monsters. They call their greed and ambition "honour," and to satisfy their so-called honour they'll tear the world apart. But who am I to judge them? Every man does what he must, to protect his share of the world. What's the difference between killing whole villages and armies, and killing a single man? Caesar's reasons and mine are different only in degree. The consequences and the suffering still spread to the innocent (Gordianus the Finder to his son Meto)”
    ― Steven Saylor, Rubicon
    tags: ancient-rome
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    Steven Saylor
    “In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.”
    ― Steven Saylor, Roma
    tags: politics
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    E.M. Forster
    “I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.”
    ― E.M. Forster
    tags: death, england, homophobia, homosexuality, lgbt-literature, maurice-novel, novels
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  • #17
    “Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protect my life, protect my property...worry about becoming a human being and not about how you can prevent others from enjoying their lives because of your own inability to adjust to life.”
    ― Harvey Milk
    tags: harvey-milk, lgbt-literature
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    E.M. Forster
    “I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.”
    ― E.M. Forster
    tags: fiction, gay-men, homosexuality, lgbt-literature, love, maurice-novel
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    Becky Albertalli
    “I want to hold your hand, I say softly. Because we're in public. Because I don't know if he's out.
    "So hold it," he says.
    And I do.”
    ― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
    tags: blue, lgbt-literature, love, simon-spier
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    Núria Añó
    “To all the young people who discover they are gay: Don't be afraid to come out of the closet right now.”
    ― Núria Añó
    tags: gay, gay-rights, homosexual, homosexuality, human-rights, lesbian, lgbt-literature, lgbt-quotes, lgbt-rights
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  • #21
    “A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.”
    ― JJuvince
    tags: dan-savage, jjuvince, jjuvince-quotes, lgbt, lgbt-authors, lgbt-literature, lgbt-quotes
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    Cheryl B. Evans
    “Being who you are is so much more important than fitting in will ever be.”
    ― Cheryl B. Evans, I Promised Not to Tell: Raising a Transgender Child
    tags: lgbt-authors, lgbt-literature, lgbt-quotes, lgbtq
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    Aldrea Alien
    “Isn't this just fun?" Dylan whispered, not quite daring to hope the hound had come to the same conclusion.
    "That depends," Tracker replied. "Is that all you want?"
    "No," he breathed. There was so much more he yearned for. He could almost understand why his friend in the tower used to risk falling in love.”
    ― Aldrea Alien, In Pain and Blood
    tags: bisexual-characters, lgbt-literature, lgbtqia, lgbtqia-characters, m-m-romance
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    Ilse V. Rensburg
    “Humans are untouchable in the eyes of the October House. Humankind is to be protected, at all costs. Anything or anyone who chooses to deviate from it is the enemy. Always.”
    ― Ilse V. Rensburg
    tags: apocolpt, lgbt-literature, magician, paranormal-romance
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
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    Edward Carpenter
    “Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.”
    ― Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex: A Study Of Some Transitional Types Of Men And Women
    tags: homosexuality, love, mystery, profundity, sexuality, stigmas
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    Maj Sjöwall
    “This is a foul thing that shouldn’t be allowed to exist. No firearms should exist. The fact that they are still made and that all sorts of people have them lying about in drawers or carry them around in the street just shows that the whole system is perverted and crazy. Some bastard makes a fat profit by making and selling arms, just the way other people make a fat profit on factories that make narcotics and deadly pills. Do you get it?”
    ― Maj Sjöwall, The Laughing Policeman
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith
    tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
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    Harold Schechter
    “Frémont failed in his presidential bid, losing the 1856 election to his Democratic opponent, James Buchanan.”
    ― Harold Schechter, Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal
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