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  • #1
    Ian McEwan
    “A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
    tags: vulnerability
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  • #2
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: attributed-no-source, courage
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    Sarah Vowell
    “I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water'... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.”
    ― Sarah Vowell
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  • #4
    Augusten Burroughs
    “I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
    ― Augusten Burroughs
    tags: flaws, individuality
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  • #5
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: compassion
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  • #6
    David Sedaris
    “On Undecided Voter​s: "To put them in perspective, I think​ of being​ on an airplane.​ The flight attendant comes​ down the aisle​ with her food cart and, eventually,​ parks​ it beside my seat.​ “Can I inter​est you in the chick​en?​” she asks.​ “Or would​ you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broke​n glass​ in it?”

    To be undecided in this elect​ion is to pause​ for a moment and then ask how the chick​en is cooked.”
    ― David Sedaris
    tags: obama, politics, undecided, vote, voters
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  • #7
    Chelsea Handler
    “There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.”
    ― Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
    tags: alcohol, drinking, drinks, humor
    860 likes

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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: reading
    755 likes

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  • #9
    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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  • #10
    E.B. White
    “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E.B. White
    tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
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  • #11
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
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  • #12
    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
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  • #13
    “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
    ― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
    tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne
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  • #14
    E.E. Cummings
    “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
    I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
    I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
    and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

    here is the deepest secret nobody knows
    (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
    higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
    and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

    I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: love, poetry
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    John Green
    “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
    ― John Green
    tags: humor, nerdfighters
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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Mark Twain
    “You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-bible
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: southern-writers
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: grotesque
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    Charles Portis
    “People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.”
    ― Charles Portis, True Grit
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    Jennifer Egan
    “They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't."

    Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
    tags: growing-up
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    Gail Carriger
    “I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."

    (Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)”
    ― Gail Carriger
    tags: addiction, book-lovers, books, survival
    634 likes

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  • #23
    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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  • #24
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: democracy, government, judicial-power, republicanism, separation-of-powers
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  • #25
    Audre Lorde
    “When I dare to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision--then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: courage, feminism, strength-through-adversity
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  • #26
    Gary Hopkins
    “Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems.”
    ― Gary Hopkins
    tags: big-picture, courageous, empowerment, fearless, fortitude, independence, resilience, self-reliance, strength, strength-through-adversity
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  • #27
    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon
    tags: adversity
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  • #28
    You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
    “You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”
    ― Mary Tyler Moore
    tags: adversity, bravery, courage, experience, happiness, life
    578 likes

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  • #29
    Helen Keller
    “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
    ― Helen Keller
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  • #30
    Brian Rathbone
    “Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”
    ― Brian Rathbone, Regent
    tags: aging, life-experience, life-lessons, wisdom
    279 likes



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