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    Federico Fellini
    “You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.”
    ― Federico Fellini
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: drama, humor, plays
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    Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
    “Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…”
    ― Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
    tags: death, humor, life
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    Alan Alda
    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    ― Alan Alda
    tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind
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    Dan Brown
    “If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.”
    ― Dan Brown
    tags: gummybearblues, jenna
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    Terry Pratchett
    “They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Nation
    tags: laugh
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Don't look back!"
    "Why not?"
    "Because I just did! Run faster!”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Nation
    tags: humour
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    Terry Pratchett
    “You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day."
    For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, "You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!" but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for "It's very kind of you to say so.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Nation
    tags: compliment, good-manners
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    Terry Pratchett
    “She said to me, "This is fun."
    "It weirdly is," I said.
    "Maybe these are our salad days."
    "Huh?"
    "You know. Happy."
    "What's happy about a salad?"
    She shrugged. "Ranch," she said.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Nation
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    Pico Iyer
    “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
    ― Pico Iyer
    tags: inspirational, love, self-awareness, travel
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
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    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    ― Anita Desai
    tags: travel
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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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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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Oscar Levant
    “There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
    ― Oscar Levant
    tags: genius, humor, insanity
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    “I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: insanity, stupidity
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    Fahmida Riaz
    “What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities.”
    ― Fahmida Riaz
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    Cyril Connolly
    “While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”
    ― Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
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    Jon Scieszka
    “Your brain is doing some great work when it's laughing.”
    ― Jon Scieszka, Funny Business
    tags: humor
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    Julia Donaldson
    “I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me.”
    ― Julia Donaldson
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    Lu Xun
    “Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.”
    ― Lu Xun
    tags: chinese-quote, facts, lu-xun
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    ― Rumi
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    “Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.”
    ― David Mamet
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    Joyce Cary
    “To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.”
    ― Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth
    tags: a-new-world, forgetting, forgiveness, genius, gulley-jimson, heart-beats, truth
    518 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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    Kinky Friedman
    “My dear,
    Find what you love and let it kill you.
    Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
    Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
    For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
    ~ Falsely yours”
    ― Kinky Friedman
    tags: death, love
    5570 likes



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