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    Oscar Wilde
    “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: intelligence, quotation, wit
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    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: power-of-words
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    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth
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    Louis Sachar
    “A lot of people don't believe in curses.
    A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.”
    ― Louis Sachar, Holes
    tags: belief, believe, curses, lizards
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: crooked-kingdom, fear, inej-ghafa
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    Emily Brontë
    “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    M.L. Rio
    “You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
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    Lewis Carroll
    “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
    "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
    "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
    "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
    tags: childrens, wisdom
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: dream, imagination, reality, war
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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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
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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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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    Charlotte Brontë
    “No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"

    "They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.

    "And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"

    "A pit full of fire."

    "And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"

    "No, sir."

    "What must you do to avoid it?"

    I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: children, hell, humor, religion
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