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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    K.L. Toth
    “One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”
    ― K.L. Toth
    tags: confusion, identity, loss, mask, philosophy, sadness, self, sense-of-self, tragedy
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
    tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: afterlife, atheism, humanism, secularism
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Maturity...is knowing what your limitations are...Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat’s Cradle
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: art
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frodo, inspirational
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds." Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: plans, unknown, writing
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

    It's really funny.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
    tags: humor, sarcasm
    2020 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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    “You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.”
    ― Ralph Marston
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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    Iain M. Banks
    “The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
    ― Iain M. Banks
    tags: fiction, fiction-writing, writing, writing-craft
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    José Martí
    “The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
    ― Jose Marti
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
    tags: art, individualism
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    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    ― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues
    tags: morning, waking-up
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: aging, elderly, old-people, seniors
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
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    Aristotle
    “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: greek, mentors, philosophy, teachers
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: education, learning, lifelong-learning, self-education
    1572 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    952 likes



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