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    Margaret Atwood
    “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
    tags: education
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    Margaret Atwood
    “But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: memory, pain
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: better
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: happiness, human-nature, psychology, social-commentary
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    Margaret Atwood
    “There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: coping, power, powerful, secretive
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    Joanne Harris
    “Most adults assume that the feelings of adolescence don't count, somehow, and that those searing passions of rage and hate and embarrassment and horror and hopeless, abject love are something your grow out of, something hormonal, a practice run for the Real Thing. It wasn't. At 13 *everything* counts; there are sharp edges on everything, and all of them cut.”
    ― Joanne Harris, Gentlemen and Players
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Joshua Becker
    “The American Dream has been defined in dollar signs and square footage.”
    ― Joshua Becker, The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own
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    Joshua Becker
    “Mark Twain has been credited as saying, “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” And I might add a third: the day you throw off any distraction and decide to pursue your purpose fully.”
    ― Joshua Becker, The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own
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    Joshua Becker
    “...minimalism in the service of others is a logical extension of the same ethos of selflessness.”
    ― Joshua Becker, The More Of Less
    tags: ehtos, minimalism, others, selflessness, service
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
    tags: love, romance
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: creation, god, humor, man
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    Victoria Schwab
    “I gave him my life, but you cannot ask me to stop living.”
    ― Victoria Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows
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    Emily Dickinson
    “There is no Frigate like a Book
    To take us Lands away
    Nor any Coursers like a Page
    Of prancing Poetry –
    This Traverse may the poorest take
    Without oppress of Toll –
    How frugal is the Chariot
    That bears a Human soul.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
    tags: literature, poetry, words
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: earnestness, gullibility, honesty
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
    ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    tags: beatnik, cynical, funny, humour
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Charlaine Harris
    “If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World
    tags: funny, sookie-eric
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Take off your shirt."
    Jace raised his eyebrows.
    "I'm not going to attack you," she said impatiently. "I can take the sight of your naked chest without swooning."
    "Are you sure?" he asked, obediently sliding the shirt off his shoulders. "Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
    tags: cassandra-clare, city-of-lost-souls, clary-fray, funny, humor, jace-lightwood, jace-wayland, naked-chest, shirt, swooning, the-mortal-instruments
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