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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald
    tags: love
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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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    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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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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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
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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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    Michael Crichton
    “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
    ― Michael Crichton, State of Fear
    tags: bigotry, fiction, prejudice, science
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    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
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    Michael Crichton
    “No one escapes from life alive.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Congo
    tags: death, life
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    Michael Crichton
    “Absence of proof is not proof of absence.”
    ― Michael Crichton, The Lost World
    tags: proof
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    Michael Crichton
    “Power is neither male or female.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Disclosure
    tags: power-sexism
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    Michael Crichton
    “In the corner store we pulled fat bottles of water from the shelves. No one thinks it's weird that we have to buy clean water, and that's how I know we're going to hell.”
    ― Michael Crichton
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    Michael Crichton
    “Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Next
    tags: integrity, psychology, science
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  • #14
    Michael Crichton
    “A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Next
    tags: determination
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  • #15
    Eoin Colfer
    “If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
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    Eoin Colfer
    “No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony
    tags: humor, men
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
    tags: artemis-fowl
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    Eoin Colfer
    “You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.”
    ― Eoin Colfer
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    Eoin Colfer
    “In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Half Moon Investigations
    tags: boys, girls, half-moon, investigations, mystery
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    Michael Crichton
    “They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Disclosure
    tags: confessions
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    Michael Crichton
    “When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?”
    ― Michael Crichton, State of Fear
    tags: language
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    Michael Crichton
    “Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.”
    ― Michael Crichton, A Case of Need
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes."
    "That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly.
    "Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
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  • #24
    Eoin Colfer
    “Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox
    tags: genius
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  • #25
    Eoin Colfer
    “Nobody's death is impending."
    ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian
    tags: artemis-fowl, humor
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  • #26
    Eoin Colfer
    “I want you to know, my dear friend, that without you, I would not be the person I am today." He leaned in close and whispered, "I was a broken boy, and you fixed me. Thank you.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian
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  • #27
    Eoin Colfer
    “HOLLY: Are you suggesting I occasionally stray from the rule book?
    FOALY: No. I'm suggesting you do not own a copy of the rule book, and if you do, you have certainly never opened it.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox
    tags: artemis-fowl, foaly, holly-short
    86 likes

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  • #28
    Eoin Colfer
    “Don't hate me forever, Arty," whispered Holly. "I couldn't bear that.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian
    tags: artemis, holly, sacrifice, touching
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  • #29
    Eoin Colfer
    “Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Half Moon Investigations
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  • #30
    Eoin Colfer
    “The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox
    tags: artemis-fowl, eoin-colfer, evolution, science
    43 likes



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