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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
    "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: fred-weasley, george-weasley, ron-weasley
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    Emily Brontë
    “She burned too bright for this world.”
    ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    tags: life
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    Emily Brontë
    “A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
    ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    tags: mornings, sleep, work
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    Joanne Harris
    “I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”
    ― Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange
    tags: acceptance, home
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    Lauren Oliver
    “You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
    tags: contrast, happiness, unhappiness
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    Lauren Oliver
    “I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
    tags: amor-deliria-nervosa, love
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    Sarah MacLean
    “Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary”
    ― Sarah MacLean, The Season
    tags: alex, humor, sarah-maclean, the-season, wit
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    Sarah MacLean
    “You cheated!”
    He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for that accusation.”
    “And I assure you, my lord, that I would ride forth victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.”
    “Are you quoting the Bible to me?”
    “Indeed,” she said primly, the portrait of piousness.
    “While gambling.”
    “What better location to attempt to reform one such as you?”
    ― Sarah MacLean, Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Margaret Thatcher
    “In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: gender-roles, gender-stereotypes, men, women
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    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
    ― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women
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    Mae West
    “I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
    ― Mae West
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    Emily Brontë
    “My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: eternal-love, wuthering-heights
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    Erma Bombeck
    “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
    ― Erma Bombeck
    tags: bravery, courage, dreams, openness, self-disclosure, sharing
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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: courage, life
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    Robert Frost
    “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: education
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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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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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
    ― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
    tags: be-yourself, empowerment, girls, identity, individuality, self-determination, women
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Maya Angelou
    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: inspiration
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    Lance Armstrong
    “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
    ― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts
    tags: cancer, failure, inspiration, inspirational, pain, quitting
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