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    Margaret Rogerson
    “Why do we desire, above all other things, that which has the greatest power to destroy us?”
    ― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens
    tags: destruction, gadfly, love
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    Terry Pratchett
    “No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
    tags: heroes
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
    tags: gods, religion
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
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  • #5
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    ― Umberto Eco
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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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  • #8
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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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
    32152 likes

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  • #12
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
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    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
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    Hanif Abdurraqib
    “History, both the arm holding down the drowning body and the voice claiming the water is holy.”
    ― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
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    Hanif Abdurraqib
    “...the happiness is fleeting, and so we search for more while the world burns around us.”
    ― Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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    Nicole Lyons
    “I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her.”
    ― Nicole Lyons
    tags: art, beautiful-quotes, beautiful-words, hope, leave-a-footprint, leave-a-legacy, leave-behind, love, love-me, love-quotes, love-you, passion, poetry, poetry-in-motion, poetry-quotes, poets-on-poetry, quote, quote-of-all-times, quote-of-the-day, quote-of-the-month, quote-of-the-week, soul, when-i-am-gone, word-porn, writers-on-writing, writers-quotes
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  • #17
    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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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
    51596 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Magda Szabó
    “I know now, what I didn’t then, that affection can’t always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else.”
    ― Magda Szabó, The Door
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  • #23
    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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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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  • #25
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
    23459 likes

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  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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  • #27
    “A King may move a man, a father may claim a son, but remember that even when those who move you be Kings, or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus." Or that, "Virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that.”
    ― King Baldwin IV in Kingdom of Heaven
    tags: life, religion, truth
    120 likes

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  • #28
    Garth Marenghi
    “I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.”
    ― Garth Marenghi
    tags: humor, writing
    91 likes



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