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#1

“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: sacrifice

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#2

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humor, philosophy, science-fiction

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#3

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

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#4

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: invention, non-physical-phenomena, progress, science

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#5

“And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.'
Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?'
Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it’s just a word.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

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#6

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: airports, humor, travel

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#7

“The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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#8

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

tags: books

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#9

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

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#10

“Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”
― J.M. Barrie

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#11

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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#12

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

tags: love

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#13

“But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

tags: humor, rats, stories

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#14

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#15

“Too often people mistake monsters for gods.”
― Monique Snyman, Muti Nation

tags: gods, horror-fiction, misconception, monsters, political-commentary, thriller

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#16

“Children or not, people were going to be people. They’d be lazy if you let them. They’d be catty if you allowed it. And they’d blame you if they could.”
― T.J. Payne, Intercepts

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