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    David Henry Hwang
    “I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
    ― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
    tags: happiness
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    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    Benjamin Spock
    “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
    ― Benjamin Spock
    tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”
    ― J.M. Barrie
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    Rómulo Gallegos
    “Como todo buen venezolano, confundía la noción del deber con la del derecho. Mejor dicho: no pensaba que tenía deberes, sino derechos.”
    ― Rómulo Gallegos
    tags: cuento, una-resolución-enérgica
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    A.G. Howard
    “Morpheus turns his face to the sky. “I’m afraid you’re the one who’s mistaken, if you think I’m going to let Wonderland fall to rot so you can play ‘pin the male on the virgin’ with your mortal toy.”
    ― A.G. Howard, Unhinged
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    Alice McDermott
    “We are surrounded by story.”
    ― Alice McDermott
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Zoya and I gaped at him. Then she scowled. "You know, if you turned a bit of that poetry on me, I might consider giving you a change."

    "Who says I want one?"

    "I want one!" called Harshaw.

    Zoya blew a damp curl from her forehead. "Oncat as a better chance than you."

    Harshaw held the little tabby above him. "Why, Oncat," he said. "You rogue.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
    tags: alina, harshaw, oncat, zoya
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Not my daughter, you bitch!”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: anger, molly-weasley-anger
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: ambition, bullying, character, moral-courage
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    Natalie Babbitt
    “Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
    ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
    tags: elegance, philosophy, simplicity
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: free-speech
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    Novala Takemoto
    “Lolitas do not recognize any authority. They follow only the values they have chosen for themselves, regardless of what anybody might say.”
    ― Novala Takemoto, Kamikaze Girls
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “My heart is so small
    it's almost invisible.
    How can You place
    such big sorrows in it?
    "Look," He answered,
    "your eyes are even smaller,
    yet they behold the world.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: spirituality
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    Mark Twain
    “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-satan
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    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
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    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness
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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “All language is but a poor translation.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

    [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: julia-cameron, writers, writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “Books are a narcotic.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books
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  • #28
    Franz Kafka
    “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
    tags: falling-in-love
    893 likes

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  • #30
    George Eliot
    “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational
    3111 likes



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