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#1

“I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot”
― Woody Allen

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#2

“Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."
(on Lillian Hellman)”
― Mary McCarthy

tags: authors, insults, lies

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#3

“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

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#4

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

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#5

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: books, infinite-jest

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#6

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

tags: women

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#7

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: humor, love, romantic, women

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#8

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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#9

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

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#10

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
― Thomas Szasz

tags: humor, inspirational

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#11

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

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#12

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

tags: misattributed-to-einstein

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#13

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ

tags: automobile, car, funny, humor, religious

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#14

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: friends, humor, jail

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#15

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: truth

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#16

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

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#17

“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
― David M. Ogilvy

tags: advertising, marketing

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#18

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”
― Anne R. Allen

tags: miranda-rights, warning, writer-humor

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#19

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

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#20

“My life has a superb cast, but I can't figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

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#21

“Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

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#22

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

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#23

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

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#24

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

tags: annoyance, writing

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#25

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
― George Carlin

tags: benediction, evil, goodwill, humor, inspirational, wishes

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#26

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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#27

“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
― René Char

tags: resistance, words

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#28

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
― Erich Segal

tags: love

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#29

“Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
― H. Rider Haggard, She

tags: after-death, death, forget, forgetting, immortality, life, live-forever, mortality, sleep

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#30

“Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

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