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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Did I ever think I might have been wrong? Yes, sometimes and briefly. But never because of the supposed majority against me.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
    Go throw your TV set away,
    And in its place you can install
    A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
    Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    tags: books, humor, television
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    Roald Dahl
    “Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
    Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
    Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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    Roald Dahl
    “I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World
    tags: children-s-literature, dahl, danny-the-champion-of-the-world, fiction
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “who knew everything about her rights and nothing about the fragility of her place in the world.”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “Why sociology?’ he said. He shouldn’t have opened the wine – it would only make Terry angrier. There was never anything to be gained from pettiness.
    ‘I wanted to understand why the world is so unfair.’
    ‘Shouldn’t your God give you those answers?’ he said, surprised by the slight teasing of his own tone.
    ‘Our God did, in a roundabout way.’
    ‘How’s that?’ he said. She was pretty when her face was at rest, wiped clean of the encroachment of anxiety.
    ‘For starters, He created Marx.”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire
    tags: marx, sociology
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    Kamila Shamsie
    “Laughing, he said, “Cancer or Islam—which is the greater affliction?”
    ― Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: music, philosophy, progress
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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    Mona Awad
    “Why do you lie so much? And about the weirdest little things?", my mother always asked me. "I don’t know", I always said. But I did know. It was very simple. Because it was a better story.”
    ― Mona Awad, Bunny
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    Mona Awad
    “The poets brace themselves for imminent, overeducated poverty.”
    ― Mona Awad, Bunny
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    Jane Austen
    “A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: knowledge, women
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    Jane Austen
    “I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: convoluted-speech, expression, humor, intelligibility, sarcasm
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    George Carlin
    “Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
    ― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
    tags: crazy, men, stupid, truth, women
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    Jane Austen
    “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
    ― Jane Austen
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-satan
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    Jane Austen
    “The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: charms, clichés, desirability, disdain, education, empowerment, equality, folly, foolishness, girls, ignorance, imbecility, inferiority, men, perception, prejudice, reason, stereotypes, stupidity, women
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    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
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    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance
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    Mark Twain
    “Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: inspirational
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    Mark Twain
    “After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain
    tags: love, marriage, women
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    Mark Twain
    “Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”
    ― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
    tags: censorship, fallibility, humor, sin
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    Mark Twain
    “All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    tags: hell, resignation
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    Mark Twain
    “The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”
    ― Mark Twain
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