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    Kevin Smith
    “More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.”
    ― Kevin Smith
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    Kevin Smith
    “Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.”
    ― Kevin Smith, Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good
    tags: art, artists-life, creativity, decency, discouragement, encouragement, kindness, supportive-actions
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    Kevin Smith
    “Only someone who doesn’t understand art tells an artist their art somehow failed. How the fuck can art fail? Art can’t be graded, because it’s going to mean something different to everyone. You can’t apply a mathematical absolute to art because there is no one formula for self-expression.”
    ― Kevin Smith, Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good
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    Kevin Smith
    “As human beings we govern our actions with our deepest fears. But if you name that shit, you claim that shit: let enough people into your closet and you'll find there's no more room for skeletons. Leave yourself nowhere to hide and you can live your life unguarded.”
    ― Kevin Smith, Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good
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    Kevin Smith
    “You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. (As Silent Bob)”
    ― Kevin Smith
    tags: clerks, love, loyalty, women
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    Kevin Smith
    “My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.”
    ― Kevin Smith
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    Kevin Smith
    “There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.”
    ― Kevin Smith, Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good
    tags: inspirational
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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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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: war
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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    Victor Hugo
    “The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “To love another person is to see the face of God.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: reading
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    Victor Hugo
    “It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    Victor Hugo
    “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Kevin Smith
    “If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.”
    ― Kevin Smith, Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good
    tags: biography, dreams, goals, humor, inspirational
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    David Clement-Davies
    “...at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.”
    ― David Clement-Davies, The Sight
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lotr, war
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    David Clement-Davies
    “Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.”
    ― David Clement-Davies, The Sight
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
    tags: morality, philosophy
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    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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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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    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
    "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
    "I don't much care where –"
    "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: adventure
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    Robert Munsch
    “I'll love you forever,
    I'll like you for always,
    As long as I'm living,
    my baby you'll be.”
    ― Robert N. Munsch, Love You Forever
    tags: family
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Cat: Where are you going?
    Alice: Which way should I go?
    Cat: That depends on where you are going.
    Alice: I don’t know.
    Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: goals, purpose
    352 likes



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