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    Alan Bennett
    “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
    tags: books
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    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: evil, good
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  • #3
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: be-yourself, self-expression
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
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    Gary Paulsen
    “I read like a wolf eats.
    I read myself to sleep every night.”
    ― Gary Paulsen
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  • #7
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    “The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
    ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
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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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    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Logan Pearsall Smith
    tags: life, reading
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    Kevin Smith
    “BRODIE:

    Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.”
    ― Kevin Smith, Mallrats
    tags: mallrats
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  • #11
    Kevin Smith
    “Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.”
    ― Kevin Smith
    tags: controversy, diversity, intelligence
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  • #12
    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    John Greenleaf Whittier
    “The windows of my soul I throw
    Wide open to the sun.”
    ― John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection
    tags: inspirational, my-psalm
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    Rebecca West
    “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
    ― Rebecca West
    tags: feminism, qotd
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    Baltasar Gracián
    “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
    ― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
    tags: choice, evil, invitation, strategy
    1976 likes

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    Anchee Min
    “If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.”
    ― Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir
    tags: fighting, mother, womb
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    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
    ― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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  • #21
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Barbara Taylor Bradford
    “We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
    ― Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance
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    Alexander Pope
    “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: angels, caution, delicacy, fearlessness, fools, indiscretion
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    Dante Gabriel Rossetti
    “Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.”
    ― Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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    Ingmar Bergman
    “Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
    ― Ingmar Bergman
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  • #26
    Anne Enright
    “I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
    ― Anne Enright, The Gathering
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  • #27
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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  • #28
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: unique
    2937 likes



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