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    Tom Robbins
    “...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....”
    ― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    tags: humor, magic
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    Tom Robbins
    “Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.”
    ― Tom Robbins
    tags: life
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    Tom Robbins
    “There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    tags: killing, life
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  • #4
    Jack Kerouac
    “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
    tags: 49
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: science, science-fiction
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  • #10
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: morality, organized-religion, religion
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  • #11
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “It may be that our role on this planet
    is not to worship God--but to create him.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. ”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
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  • #13
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: magic, science
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  • #14
    Gustave Flaubert
    “To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: happiness
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Memoirs of a Madman
    tags: doubt, knowledge, madness
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  • #16
    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
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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  • #18
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: greatness
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  • #20
    Paul Valéry
    “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
    ― Paul Valéry
    tags: dreams
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  • #21
    Gore Vidal
    “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
    ― Gore Vidal
    tags: style
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  • #22
    Dorothy Parker
    “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: wordplay
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  • #23
    Dorothy Parker
    “What fresh hell is this?”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
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  • #24
    Dorothy Parker
    “Résumé
    Razors pain you,
    Rivers are damp,
    Acids stain you,
    And drugs cause cramp.
    Guns aren't lawful,
    Nooses give,
    Gas smells awful.
    You might as well live.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
    tags: dark-humor, humor, suicide
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  • #25
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."

    [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, death, immortality, literature, reading, transformation, words
    543 likes

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  • #27
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: on-writing
    2181 likes

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  • #28
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: sleep
    9532 likes

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  • #29
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
    tags: the-sun-also-rises
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  • #30
    E.M. Forster
    “It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
    tags: foretelling, life, planning
    30 likes



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