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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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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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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton
    tags: sci-fi, wisdom
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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  • #7
    Charlaine Harris
    “If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World
    tags: funny, sookie-eric
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    Poppy Z. Brite
    “The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
    ― Poppy Z. Brite
    tags: insomnia, night, sleep
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    Poppy Z. Brite
    “Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
    ― Poppy Z.Brite
    tags: evening, loneliness, night, reflection, torture
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    William Faulkner
    “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
    ― William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
    tags: freedom
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    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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    Carlos Castaneda
    “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
    ― Carlos Castaneda
    tags: confidence, inspirational
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    Carlos Castaneda
    “A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.”
    ― Carlos Castaneda
    tags: inspirational
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    F. Paul Wilson
    “If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.”
    ― F. Paul Wilson
    tags: jack, repairman
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    F. Paul Wilson
    “Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.”
    ― F. Paul Wilson, Healer
    tags: reality, truth
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    R.K. Lilley
    “Life hurts.  As long as it doesn’t kill us, we weather it.”
    ― R.K. Lilley, In Flight
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    R.K. Lilley
    “You are the most perfect fucking thing I've ever seen in my life”
    ― R.K. Lilley, In Flight
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    Poppy Z. Brite
    “I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.”
    ― Poppy Z. Brite
    tags: loneliness
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: memories
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    Dru Pagliassotti
    “A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing.”
    ― Dru Pagliassotti, Clockwork Heart
    tags: clockwork, love, steampunk
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    Nicholas Trandahl
    “Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.”
    ― Nicholas Trandahl
    tags: beauty, darkness, edgar-allan-poe, sorrow
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  • #23
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
    5346 likes



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