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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
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    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: greatness
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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”
    ― Mortimer Adler
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: books, reading
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: reading
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    Norman Mailer
    “Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
    ― Norman Mailer
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    Norman Mailer
    “You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.”
    ― Norman Mailer
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    Norman Mailer
    “There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.”
    ― Norman Mailer
    tags: life
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    Norman Mailer
    “Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”
    ― Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself
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    “When reason, common sense, and decency are assaulted often enough, then personality is crippled, and human intelligence disintegrates or is warped. The barrier between truth and lies is effectively destroyed. . . . Schooled in such a climate, fearful and deprived of any intellectual initiative, Homo Sovieticus could never be more than a mouthpiece for the party’s ideas and slogans, not so much a human being then, as a receptacle to be emptied and filled as party policy dictated.”
    ― Frank Ellis
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    J.K. Rowling
    “According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzche
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
    tags: discipline, freedom
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: books, friend, friendship, reading, sharing
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you don't already possess”
    ― mortimer adler
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    Patti Smith
    “Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”
    ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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    Patti Smith
    “Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

    (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
    ― Patti Smith
    tags: books, materialism, musicians, pure-awesome, technology
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “Two turtle doves will show thee
    Where my cold ashes lie
    And sadly murmuring tell thee
    How in tears I did die”
    ― Nikolai Gogol
    tags: birds, crying, dead-souls, death, doves, loneliness, sad, whisper
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all”
    ― Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, The Nose
    tags: surrealism
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    Robin Gregory
    “You can’t make a map and expect a river to bend to it.”
    ― Robin Gregory, The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman
    tags: life-lessons
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    Gloria Steinem
    “Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
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    H.L. Mencken
    “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, whiskey
    2453 likes



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