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    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    ― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues
    tags: morning, waking-up
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    “Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
    ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
    tags: improbability, life
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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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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    Henry Miller
    “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
    ― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
    tags: books, power
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    George Santayana
    “Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
    ― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
    tags: madness, sanity
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Judith McNaught
    “There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.”
    ― Judith McNaught, Remember When
    tags: attitude, inspirational-quotes, life-lessons, robert-foster
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    Judith McNaught
    “A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.”
    ― Judith McNaught, Something Wonderful
    tags: lie
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    Susan Sontag
    “My library is an archive of longings.”
    ― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
    tags: books, library, longing
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    Wilkie Collins
    “The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
    ― Wilkie Collins, Armadale
    tags: books
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
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    August Strindberg
    “Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
    ― August Strindberg, Miss Julie
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    Derek Walcott
    “The time will come
    when, with elation,
    you will greet yourself arriving
    at your own door, in your own mirror,
    and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
    ― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes
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    Edith Wharton
    “Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
    ― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
    tags: carpe-diem, day, daytime, window
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    Gertrude Stein
    “We are always the same age inside. ”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: self-confidence
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    Nadezhda Mandelstam
    “I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
    ― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope
    tags: silence, voice
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    Lemony Snicket
    “I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
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    John Grisham
    “In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
    ― John Grisham
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Nelson Mandela
    “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    Judy Blume
    “My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
    ― Judy Blume
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: cartoonist, humor, inspirational
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    Lillian Hellman
    “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
    ― Lillian Hellman
    tags: integrity
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    Dave Eggers
    “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
    ― Dave Eggers
    tags: books, time
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  • #30
    Betty Friedan
    “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
    ― Betty Friedan
    1740 likes



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