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#1

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#2

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#3

“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.”
― George Carlin

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#4

“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”
― Charles Spurgeon

tags: bible

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#5

“Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.”
― David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition

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#6

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
― Bill Watterson

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#7

“Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: comfort, freedom, important-things-in-life, leaving

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#8

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic

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#9

“Look out for number one and try not to step in number two.”
― Rodney Dangerfield

tags: humor

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#10

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin

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#11

“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
― Miles Kington

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#12

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

tags: apothegm, common-sense

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#13

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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#14

“Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

tags: dopey, men, shaving

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#15

“I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. ”
― George Burns

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#16

“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: writing, writing-process

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#17

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#18

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: autumn, fall, solitude

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#19

“For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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#20

“My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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#21

“It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.”
― Truman Capote

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#22

“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

tags: 1985, california, lifestyle, society

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#23

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom

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#24

“Good fences make good neighbors.”
― Robert Frost

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#25

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: garcin, hell, people

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#26

“Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: philosophy, suicide

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#27

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: reason, time

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#28

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
― John Wooden

tags: advice-for-daily-living, character, inspirational, self-image

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#29

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

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#30

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
― George Washington

tags: character, honor, reputation

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