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    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
    tags: books
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    John Lennon
    “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, dragons, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, fairies, faith, mythology, nightmares, reality, truth
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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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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

    So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: america, books, politics
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
    tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
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    “You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money,
    Love like you’ll never get hurt.
    You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watchin’.”
    ― Richard Leigh, Come from the Heart Sheet Music
    tags: susanna-clark
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    John Adams
    “Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .”
    ― John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States
    tags: cherish, knowledge, read, think
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Courage is grace under pressure.”
    ― ernest hemingway
    tags: courage
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never confuse movement with action.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: action, progress
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”
    ― Hemingway, Ernest
    tags: on-writing
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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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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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
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    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
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