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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
    5249 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
    21881 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Life is a journey, not a destination.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: goals, journey, travel
    3197 likes

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    Jim Butcher
    “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
    ― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
    tags: humor, life, metaphor, zen
    927 likes

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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Good people drink good beer.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    tags: drinking
    700 likes

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    Heraclitus
    “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
    ― Heraclitus
    tags: eternity, impermanence, journey, life, mujo
    2179 likes

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The only journey is the one within.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: introspection, journey, self-discovery, within
    1113 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: on-writing, storytelling
    980 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32159 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
    10129 likes

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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
    13400 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humour
    1968 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
    3469 likes

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    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
    ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    tags: beatnik, cynical, funny, humour
    2885 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
    6243 likes

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    Peter Ustinov
    “I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
    ― Peter Ustinov
    tags: culture, hell, humor, humour, stereotypes
    762 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
    847 likes

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    James Thurber
    “Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
    ― James Thurber
    tags: emotion, humour, memory
    170 likes

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    Nell Dixon
    “Leave any problem alone for long enough and it will solve itself.”
    ― Nell Dixon
    tags: humour
    68 likes

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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
    400 likes

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    Hugh Laurie
    “This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.”
    ― Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller
    tags: house-md, hugh-laurie, humour
    84 likes

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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
    ― Honore de Balzac
    tags: clever, funny, humour, sarcasism, witty
    127 likes

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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, Collected Later Poems of Alvaro de Campos: 1928-1935
    tags: chocolate, dessert, humour
    360 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates
    tags: human-nature, humour
    76 likes

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    Anne Frank
    “I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: humour, inspirational
    95 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: cynical, funny, humour, review
    119 likes

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    Shirley Temple Black
    “I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”
    ― Shirley Temple Black
    tags: fame, humour, santa-claus
    58 likes

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  • #30
    “He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.”
    ― David Frost
    tags: depressed, funny, humour, miserable
    76 likes



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