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    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    “People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”
    ― Judith Guest, Ordinary People
    tags: depression, emotions, feelings, judith-guest, life, ordinary-people, smile
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: infinity
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
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    “Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.”
    ― Judith Guest, Ordinary People
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    John Steinbeck
    “My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: imagination
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    John Steinbeck
    “There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: truth
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    John Steinbeck
    “Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: stupidity, willful-ignorance
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  • #11
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: attributed-no-source, courage
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    Markus Zusak
    “Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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  • #13
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    Markus Zusak
    “Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    Markus Zusak
    “Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, destruction, failure
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    Markus Zusak
    “You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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  • #19
    Douglas Adams
    “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: british, humor, science-fiction, social-commentary, thumb, towel
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  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humor, philosophy, science-fiction
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    Douglas Adams
    “This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: life, sci-fi
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    Douglas Adams
    “This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: happiness, money
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  • #23
    Douglas Adams
    “Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: inspirational
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    Douglas Adams
    “Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: answer, humor, life, meaning, question
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    Douglas Adams
    “Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin.
    "And what happened?" pressed Ford.
    "It committed suicide," said Marvin and stalked off back to the Heart of Gold.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: marvin
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  • #26
    Douglas Adams
    “My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humor
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  • #27
    Douglas Adams
    “I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: arthur-dent, h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide
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  • #28
    Eoin Colfer
    “There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, And Another Thing...
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    Douglas Adams
    “The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: depression, h2g2, hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy, humor, marvin
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    Douglas Adams
    “What, are you, crazy?' 'It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet', said Zaphod quietly. 'I know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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