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#1

“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

tags: memory

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#2

“We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

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#3

“After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

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#4

“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.”
― Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms

tags: rudeness, weakness

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#5

“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.”
― Eric Hoffer

tags: lies

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#6

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
― Eric Hoffer

tags: change-management, learning

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#7

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”
― Eric Hoffer

tags: blessings

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#8

“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
― Eric Hoffer

tags: imitation

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#9

“When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.”
― eric hoffer

tags: boredom

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#10

“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”
― Eric Hoffer

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#11

“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.”
― Eric Hoffer

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#12

“Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.”
― Eric Hoffer

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#13

“You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
― Eric Hoffer

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#14

“When I was your age, television was called books.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: book, fantasy, humour

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#15

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

tags: life, pain

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#16

“We’ll never survive!”
“Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: doubt, humor, optimism, survival

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#17

“Who says life is fair, where is that written?”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: fair, life, unfair

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#18

“You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you."
You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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#19

“I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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#20

“Why do you wear a mask and hood?"
I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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#21

“Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.”
― William Goldman

tags: inspirational, writers-on-writing, writing-craft, writing-process

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#22

“she was, through no real faults of her own, perfect.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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#23

“I understand completely what you are trying to do," the Sicilian said finally, "and I want it quite clear that I resent your behavior. You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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#24

“Two things happened:

(1) The door, quite clearly, locked.
(2) Out went the candles on the high walls.

"DON'T BE FRIGHTENED!" Inigo screamed.

"I'M NOT, I'M NOT!" Fezzik screamed.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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#25

“You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia.”
― William Goldman

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#26

“Unbelief is a decision of the will, but doubt tends to bubble up within the context of faith.”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

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#27

“the definition of truth is actually quite simple: Truth is a thought, statement, or opinion that lines up with reality. That’s it. If what we say, think, or believe lines up with reality, it’s truth. If it doesn’t, it’s not.”
― Alisa Childers, Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed

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#28

“By far the most common differences simply show us that scribes in the ancient world could spell no better than most people can today”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

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#29

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

tags: books, reading

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#30

“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

tags: law

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