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#1

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

tags: life

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#2

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

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#3

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

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#4

“See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: tourism, travel

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#5

“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: inspirational, life, love, time

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#6

“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously."

[Writer’s Digest Interview (Robert Jacobs, Writer’s Digest, February 1976)]”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: life, seriousness

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#7

“...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.”
― Ray Bradbury

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#8

“And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

tags: something-wicked-this-way-comes

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#9

“It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe ”
― Ray Bradbury

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#10

“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]

tags: reading, writing

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#11

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#12

“It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#13

“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: night

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#14

“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

tags: abilities, equality, fear, gender, intelligence, men, misogyny, skills, strength, superiority, suppression, weakness, women

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#15

“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: grief

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#16

“To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: secret

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#17

“We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#18

“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: humor, humour, mankind, misanthropy

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#19

“Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Idler; Poems

tags: expectations, gladness, inspirational, surprise

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#20

“That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: death, life

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#21

“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#22

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: quote

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#23

“Hell is paved with good intentions.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

tags: evil, good-intentions, hell, intentions

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#25

“Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.”
― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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#26

“Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#27

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: habits

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#28

“If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.”
― Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

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#29

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

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#30

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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#31

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

tags: life, words

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