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    Charles Bukowski
    “there are worse things
    than being alone
    but it often takes
    decades to realize this
    and most often when you do
    it's too late
    and there's nothing worse
    than too late”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
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    John Lennon
    “One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, emotions, hypocrisy, pain, suffering
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    Harper Lee
    “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: bible, god, hatred, judgement, religion
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    John Green
    “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: attraction, beauty, popularity
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    Caitlyn Siehl
    “Do not fall in love with people like me.
    I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
    I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
    ― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems
    tags: beautiful, blood, kiss, life, love, mouth, museums, parks
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia
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    John Green
    “Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: promises
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: fight-club, narrator, palahniuk
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    John Green
    “I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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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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    John Green
    “If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: augustus-waters, greater-good, life
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    “Fourth Doctor: You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views.”
    ― Chris Boucher
    tags: doctor-who
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    John Green
    “Sometimes people don’t understand
    the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.
    Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course.
    But you keep the promise anyway. That’s
    what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: keep, love, promises, the-fault-in-our-stars, truth
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    John Green
    “And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    George R.R. Martin
    “My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: dreamers, heroes, perseverance
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    John Green
    “No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: life-lesson
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Caitlyn Siehl
    “When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”
    ― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems
    tags: fantasy, love, monster
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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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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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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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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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