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    Oscar Wilde
    “It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears
    is said to be seen in San Francisco.
    It must be a delightful city and possess
    all the attractions of the next world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: heaven, hiding, people, places, san-francisco, tales-of-the-city
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    Aldous Huxley
    “It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: compassion, kindness
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
    tags: charity
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: frustration, futility, life
    212 likes

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    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: fate, humor, simile
    13157 likes

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    H.G. Wells
    “Civilization is a race between disaster and education.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: civilization
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    ― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
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    Michael Pollan
    “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
    ― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
    tags: diet, eating, food, omnivore, plants
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!
    tags: hair, humor, redheads
    617 likes

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    Steven Wright
    “Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
    ― Steven Wright
    tags: humor, perspective, walking
    479 likes

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  • #13
    John Milton
    “What hath night to do with sleep?”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: night, paradise-lost, sleep
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth
    tags: hanlon-s-razor, malice, stupidity
    780 likes

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    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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    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
    40994 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.”
    ― Wodehouse
    tags: existentialism, humor, life, pondering
    46 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92172 likes

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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
    tags: books, humor, reading
    4412 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32151 likes

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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Woody Allen
    “I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
    ― Woody Allen, The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader
    tags: life
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  • #27
    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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: anti-christian, christianity, christians, jesus-christ
    6226 likes

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  • #29
    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: music, philosophy, progress
    5521 likes

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  • #30
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
    9726 likes



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