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    Groucho Marx
    “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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    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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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    “You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make their mark in the magical lands of D&D adventure. You however, are above even the greatest of these, for as DM you are to become the Shaper of the Cosmos. It is you who will give form and content to the all the universe. You will breathe life into the stillness, giving meaning and purpose to all the actions which are to follow.”
    ― Gary Gygax
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    Barack Obama
    “I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers.”
    ― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”
    ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Howard Zinn
    “History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: history
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
    tags: cruelty, gods, hubris, humanity
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
    tags: city-of-fallen-angels, fragility, jocelyn-fray
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  • #17
    “Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: individuality
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    William Goldman
    “Inconceivable!"
    "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: bride, funny, humor, movie, princess
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    William Goldman
    “My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: retribution, revenge
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    Benjamin Harrison
    “I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man
    or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”
    ― Benjamin Harrison
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    Stephen Colbert
    “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
    ― Stephen Colbert
    tags: christ, christian, christian-behavior, poor, religion, selfish
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
    tags: aspiration, dream, work
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  • #25
    Leonard Cohen
    “If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
    they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Anne Lamott
    “You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
    ― Anne Lamott
    tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth
    1993 likes

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    Alan Bradley
    “Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
    tags: friendship, humor, vocabulary
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    Paul Cornell
    “He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful. - Tim Latimer”
    ― Paul Cornell
    tags: doctor, doctor-who, who
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    Sarah Caudwell
    “The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.”
    ― Sarah Caudwell, The Sirens Sang of Murder
    tags: humor-fiction-mystery-writing
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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