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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: humor, men, witchcraft, witches, women
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    Neil Gaiman
    “The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: cookies, descriptions, ghosts, humor, scent, setting, smell
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    Neil Gaiman
    “When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions")”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
    ― Anthony G. Oettinger
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-groucho-marx, time
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    Groucho Marx
    “I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: absurd, gibe, insult
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    Groucho Marx
    “It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: humor
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  • #14
    “Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
    ― David Lloyd George
    tags: goal, step, try
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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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    Michel de Montaigne
    “No wind favors he who has no destined port.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays
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    Sherman Alexie
    “If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.”
    ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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    Sherman Alexie
    “Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.”
    ― Sherman Alexie
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  • #21
    “Credendo vides: by believing, one sees.
    Post nublia phoebus: after clouds, sun!”
    ― James C. Christensen
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    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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    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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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, dogs, heaven
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
    ― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
    tags: government, kidding, misattributed-mark-twain, stupidity
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    Mark Twain
    “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: conscience, humor, memory
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    Mark Twain
    “Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

    [Mark Twain, a Biography]”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, prayer, profanity, relief, you-ll-completely-understand-why
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    Mark Twain
    “Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
    ― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
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    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
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  • #32
    Mark Twain
    “After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain
    tags: love, marriage, women
    1111 likes



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