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“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: conscience, politics, right

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“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

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#3

“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
― Norman Mailer

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#4

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

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#5

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#6

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

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#7

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

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“Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.”
― Agatha Christie, Mrs. McGinty's Dead

tags: author, authors, mystery, social-life, whodunnit

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#9

“There's some heinous fuckery goin' on mon.”
― Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

tags: fluke, humor

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#10

“Blessed are the dumbfucks.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

tags: beatitudes

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#11

“Not unlike the toaster, I control darkness.”
― Christopher Moore, You Suck

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#12

“I love you above all things, even pie.”
― Christopher Moore, Fool

tags: humor

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#13

“Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.”
― Christopher Moore

tags: humor

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#14

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

tags: god, good-intentions, humanity, religion

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#15

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

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#16

“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

tags: fate

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#17

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#18

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: truth

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#19

“Talk between women friends is always therapy...”
― Jayne Anne Phillips

tags: friendship

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#20

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

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#21

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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#22

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

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#23

“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

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#24

“I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”
― Lee Child, 61 Hours

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#25

“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”
― Walker Evans

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#26

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#27

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

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#28

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

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#29

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: life

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#30

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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