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#1

“Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.”
― W.H. Auden , Another Time

tags: death, grief, loss, love, mourning, poem, poetry

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#2

“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read ‘The Lost Symbol’, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.”
― The Economist

tags: books, literature, reading

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#4

“Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.”
― R.W. and Rev. Joseph Fort Newton, The Lost Symbol

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#6

“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#7

“The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.”
― Italo Calvino

tags: dictionary, inadequacy-of-words, language, literature, writing

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#7

“Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.”
― Brodi Ashton, Everneath

tags: choices, heroes, paths

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#7

“Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.”
― Nora Roberts

tags: humor, love, magic, practice

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#8

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

tags: alone, birth, death, growing-up, growth, life, lonely, love, self-respect

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#9

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: gonzo, happiness, risk

2501 likes

#11

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: life

2201 likes

#11

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
― William Jennings Bryan

tags: achieved, change, choice, destiny

1365 likes

#12

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: change, control, empowerment, inspirational, letting-go, life, motivational

2703 likes

#13

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought

7227 likes

#15

“I'm single because I was born that way.”
― Mae West

tags: bachelorhood, choice, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, self-determination, singleness, singles

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#16

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: american-presidents, freedom, slavery, wisdom

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#16

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics

1902 likes

#17

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: amsterdam, freedom, sin

6284 likes

#21

“The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: freedom, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, society, unhappiness, unhappy-life

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#22

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: freedom, friendship, jim-morrison

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#26

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: challenges, children, luxury

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#26

“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: choice, freedom, peace, war

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#27

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
― Robert J. Hanlon

tags: evil, malice, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, misattributed-to-einstein, stupidity

344 likes

#28

“There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

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#29

“Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

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#30

“One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

tags: religion

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#31

“Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. ”
― Robert Heinlein

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#32

“Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

tags: drinking, inspirational

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#32

“Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: power

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#32

“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

tags: censorship, dissent, society, suppression, trouble

255 likes

#33

“Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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