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    Pablo Picasso
    “It takes a very long time to become young.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: ignorance, innocence, knowledge, wisdom, youth
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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
    3697 likes

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    E.M. Forster
    “Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room With A View
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    E.M. Forster
    “Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, fashion
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    E.M. Forster
    “Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
    tags: 1908, life, metaphor, violin
    239 likes

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    Edward Lear
    “And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
    They danced by the light of the moon.”
    ― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat
    tags: dance, happiness, nursery-rhymes
    2198 likes

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    Lydia Davis
    “There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.”
    ― Lydia Davis
    tags: choice, love, selfishness
    176 likes

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    Thomas Paine
    “These are the times that try men's souls.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
    tags: adversity, american-revolution, trials
    1619 likes

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  • #9
    Emily Dickinson
    “A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    1470 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Phyllis McGinley
    “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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    Seán O'Casey
    “Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
    ― Sean O'Casey
    tags: joy, laughter
    2625 likes

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    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    ― August Wilson
    tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength
    4208 likes

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    Joseph Brodsky
    “The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
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    Jamaica Kincaid
    “There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
    ― Jamaica Kincaid
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    Countee Cullen
    “There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
    ― Countee Cullen
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    Maurice Sendak
    “Let the wild rumpus start!”
    ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
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    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    ― Amy Bloom
    tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance
    4445 likes

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    Vikram Seth
    “God save us from people who mean well.”
    ― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
    tags: god, good-intentions, humanity, religion
    1983 likes

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  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
    ― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    tags: imagination
    3634 likes

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    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck
    2889 likes

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    Hilary Mantel
    “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: facts, knowledge
    2280 likes

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    James Baldwin
    “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: parenting, role-models
    3066 likes

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    Suzanne Collins
    “May the odds be ever in your favor!”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: benediction
    3145 likes

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
    tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement
    4406 likes

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    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    3260 likes



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