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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
    tags: life
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    Neil Gaiman
    “There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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    Mother Teresa
    “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa
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    Alice Childress
    “Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
    ― Alice Childress
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Aim higher in case you fall short.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
    tags: aspirations, goals, inspirational
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Short cuts make long delays.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: humour, life-lesson, pippin, proverbs, shortcuts
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
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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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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
    tags: relationships, women
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    Sanober Khan
    “your hand
    touching mine.
    this is how
    galaxies
    collide.”
    ― Sanober Khan
    tags: collide, falling-in-love, galaxies, galaxy, hands, indian-authors, love-poems, love-quotes, magical, poetry, poetry-quotes, romance, short-poems, touch, touching
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    “Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you
    right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.”
    ― Harvey MacKay
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    “I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.”
    ― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never
    tags: andrew, letter
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    Isabel Allende
    “There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”
    ― Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
    tags: immortality, remembrance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: analogy, public-speaking, simile, speaking
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it."

    "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: fiction, invention, life, reality, strangeness, truth
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