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    Erica Jong
    “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: change, courage, fear, life
    2386 likes

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    Giacomo Casanova
    “Be the flame, not the moth.”
    ― Giacomo Casanova
    tags: passion, self-destruction
    2055 likes

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    Lester Bangs
    “The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
    ― Lester Bangs
    1324 likes

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    Dany Laferrière
    “People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
    ― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel
    tags: happiness, life
    1050 likes

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  • #5
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom
    tags: forgiveness, hiding-place
    2042 likes

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  • #6
    Gore Vidal
    “How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Julian
    2058 likes

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    Angela Johnson
    “My life is like tofu—it's what gets added that makes it interesting.”
    ― Angela Johnson, A Certain October
    615 likes

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    Luigi Pirandello
    “Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
    ― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
    1046 likes

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  • #9
    “Nerd. Geek. Used to be if you self-identified that way, you'd get thrown into a locker and never have sex. Or worse, whatever that is. But to me and more and more people I know, being a nerd or a geek means having passion, power, intelligence. Being a nerd just means there is something in the world that you care deeply about—be it twelve-sided dice, a favorite sports team, your new laptop or Night Rider.”
    ― Olivia Munn, Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek
    86 likes

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  • #10
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: computer, computer-hackers, computers, funny, geek, geek-humor, humor, humour, nerd, nerd-humor, nerds, revenge, vengeance
    77 likes

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  • #11
    John Green
    “Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.”
    ― John Green
    tags: geek, humor, internet, nerdfighters
    412 likes

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    Stephen H. Segal
    “Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.”
    ― Stephen H. Segal, Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture
    tags: geek, inspirational
    15 likes

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    Kristin Hannah
    “So now books were her only friends. She'd read Lord of the Rings so often she could recite whole scenes by memory.

    It was not a skill that aided one in becoming popular.”
    ― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane
    tags: books, geek, popularity
    31 likes

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  • #14
    “Geeks like to make things. Indeed, the drive to create is an intrinsic geeky quality (right up there with loving genre fiction and drinking too much Mountain Dew). And while many geeks may not think of themselves as creative in an artistic sense, most geeky pursuits--from rolling up a new D&D character to assembling the LEGO Star Wars Death Star kit (you know, the one with all the cool minifigures)--are acts of creation.”
    ― Ken Denmead
    tags: creating, geek
    13 likes

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    Mildred D. Taylor
    “So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.”
    ― Mildred D. Taylor, The Land
    tags: impossibility, inspirational, possibility
    852 likes

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  • #16
    Fay Weldon
    “Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.”
    ― Fay Weldon, The Fat Woman's Joke
    634 likes

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  • #17
    Margaret Thatcher
    “Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: leadership
    907 likes

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  • #18
    Trudi Canavan
    “Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.”
    ― Trudi Canavan, Priestess of the White
    tags: trudi-canavan, truefacts
    501 likes

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  • #19
    Carl Sagan
    “Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    831 likes

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    Christopher Paolini
    “Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.”
    ― Christopher Paolini
    tags: christopher, paolini
    834 likes

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  • #21
    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
    2613 likes

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  • #22
    “Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: humour, science, wisdom
    1750 likes

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  • #23
    Cory Doctorow
    “Most of the people you see going to work today are LARPing (live-action role playing) an incredibly boring RPG (role-playing game) called "professionalism" that requires them to alter their vocabulary, posture, eating habits, facial expressions--every detail all the way down to what they allow themselves to find funny.”
    ― Cory Doctorow, In Real Life
    tags: in-real-life, larping, rpg
    33 likes

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    Alexei Maxim Russell
    “Just like the notion of "Internet natives", who have never known a world without Internet access, we, who have lived our entire lives with video games, can be known as "video game natives.”
    ― Alexei Maxim Russell, The Classic Gamer's Bible
    tags: arcade, bible, classic, computers, game, gamer, gamers, geek, nintendo, playstation, rpg, rpgs, sega, self-help, video, video-games, xbox
    10 likes

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    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    ― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story
    tags: acceptance, life, love, worth
    3775 likes

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    Tom Wolfe
    “You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
    ― Tom Wolfe
    1792 likes

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  • #27
    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
    39242 likes

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  • #28
    Eoin Colfer
    “It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
    2189 likes

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  • #29
    Joseph Brodsky
    “The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    1759 likes

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  • #30
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
    ― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    2444 likes



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