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    Tom Stoppard
    “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    tags: stoppard
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    Kerry Greenwood
    “Phryne was getting out of the car. Dot closed her eyes. Miss Fisher was about to happen to someone again.”
    ― Kerry Greenwood, Dead Man's Chest
    tags: strong-heroine
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    “I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.”
    ― Bill Bryson, Lost Continent: Travels In Small-Town America
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    Guy Adams
    “Sherlock: If the occasional pile of clutter offends you, by all means move it.
    John: Last time I tried that I was bitten by a large spider you appeared to be using as a bookmark.”
    ― Guy Adams, Sherlock: The Casebook
    tags: john-watson, sherlock-holmes
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    Tom Stoppard
    “You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    tags: desires, perversion, royalty
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    Gerald Durrell
    “I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.”
    ― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals
    tags: atmosphere, eucalyptus, gloom, prose
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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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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Douglas Adams
    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: design, foolproof, ingenuity
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    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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    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
    “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
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    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    Douglas Adams
    “Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: reality
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    Douglas Adams
    “There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: psychology
    1405 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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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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    Terry Pratchett
    “Insanity is catching.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Making Money
    tags: insanity
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    John Sandford
    “Time passes, but sometimes it beats the shit out of you as it goes.”
    ― John Sandford, Easy Prey
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    Douglas Adams
    “If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: egotism, zaphod-beeblebrox
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    Kevin Hearne
    “Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed.”
    ― Kevin Hearne, Hounded
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    Kevin Hearne
    “When he said to give him the sword, I don’t think he meant for you to stick it in his guts.”
    ― Kevin Hearne, Hounded
    tags: death, give, sword
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    Kevin Hearne
    “The grin on his face wasn’t the affable, friendly sort; instead, it was the sociopathic rictus of the irretrievably, bug-fuckeringly insane”
    ― Kevin Hearne, Trapped
    tags: humor
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    Mark Gatiss
    “One man's fish is another man's poisson.”
    ― Mark Gatiss, The Vesuvius Club
    tags: humor
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    Neil Gaiman
    “If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, A Study in Emerald
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Creeping Man
    tags: convenience, exigence, favor, friends, friendship
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    Mark Forsyth
    “Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.”
    ― Mark Forsyth, The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
    tags: poetry, sex, truth
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    Mark Forsyth
    “Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.”
    ― Mark Forsyth, The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
    tags: humour
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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
    6313 likes



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