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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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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Stephen King
    “Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: children
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    Phyllis Diller
    “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.”
    ― Phyllis Diller
    tags: children, housekeeping
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    Carol Shields
    “Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
    ― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love
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    Wilkie Collins
    “Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: argument, control, dispute, empowerment, intelligence, men, self-control, superiority, wit, women
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    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: ghosts, haunt
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    Doris Lessing
    “Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
    ― Doris Lessing
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    William Arthur Ward
    “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: realist
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    George Saunders
    “Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
    ― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone
    tags: confusion, life, open, possibilities
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: happiness
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Mae West
    “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
    ― Mae West
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: evil, good-intentions, morality
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins
    tags: evil, fair-play, love
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
    tags: evil, stupidity
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  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    Dean Koontz
    “...up to no good—and pleased about it.”
    ― Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
    tags: mischief, no-good, odd-thomas, pleased, pleasure
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “A little truth seasons a lie like salt.”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
    tags: historical-fiction, story, truth
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen
    tags: circle, life, patterns, theme
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    Fredrik Backman
    “People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
    tags: descriptive, love-quote
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    Fredrik Backman
    “We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
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  • #29
    Fredrik Backman
    “Never mess with someone who has more spare time than you do[.]”
    ― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
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    Fredrik Backman
    “Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild’s ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
    260 likes



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