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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 Haddon
    “Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
    ― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    tags: life, math, meaning-of-life, rules-of-life
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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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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Malcolm X
    “I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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    Harper Lee
    “Pass the damn ham, please.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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    Harper Lee
    “I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
    Scout”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “Hush Hattie!" I said, intoxicated with my success. "I don't want to go to my room. Everyone must know I shan't marry the prince." I ran to the door to our street, opened it, and called out into the night, "I shan't marry the prince." I turned back into the hall and ran to Char and threw my arms about his neck. "I shan't marry you." I kissed his cheek. He was safe from me.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
    tags: humor, romance
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    Sinclair Lewis
    “We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
    ― Sinclair Lewis
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    Susan Ee
    “I never thought about it before, but I'm proud to be human. We're ever so flawed. We're frail, confused, violent, and we struggle with so many issues. But all in all, I'm proud to be a Daughter of Man.”
    ― Susan Ee, Angelfall
    tags: penryn
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    Dodie Smith
    “Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: contemplation, luxury
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    Dodie Smith
    “Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness. ”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: ruthless, truth
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    Dodie Smith
    “Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: humor, i-capture-the-castle
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    J.M. Barrie
    “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
    ― J.M. Barrie
    tags: memory
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    Isaac Marion
    “I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
    tags: metaphor, punctuation
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    “No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future”
    ― Umar ibn Al-Khattab
    tags: guily, insparational, life, regret, worrying
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    Jonathan Lethem
    “What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?”
    ― Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude
    tags: 490, racism
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    Mahmoud Darwish
    “I am from there. I am from here.
    I am not there and I am not here.
    I have two names, which meet and part,
    and I have two languages.
    I forget which of them I dream in.”
    ― Mahmoud Darwish
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    Ryū Murakami
    “All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.”
    ― Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup
    tags: americans, immigrants
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    Faraaz Kazi
    “Imtihaan yeh kaisa humari zindagani mein,
    Woh bheeg rahi hai aag mein
    Aur main jal raha hun paani mein.”
    ― Faraaz Kazi
    tags: hindi, hindi-poem, hindi-quotes, love, struggle, struggles-in-relationships, test-of-love, urdu, urdu-literature, urdu-poetry
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    Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
    “If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him;
    There's a stranger in the city
    And he has many things to say.”
    ― Mirza Ghalib
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    علي بن أبي طالب
    “Do not raise your children the way [your] parents raised you, they were born for a different time.”
    ― Ali Bin Abi Thalib
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    Holly Black
    “Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.”
    ― Holly Black, White Cat
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    Isaac Marion
    “In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
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    Barack Obama
    “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: determination, helping-others, hope, initiative, just-do-it, proactivity, service, volunteerism, work
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    William Penn
    “They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.

    (Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
    ― William Penn
    tags: 1693, criticism, helping-others, misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misquote, volunteerism
    460 likes

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    Malcolm X
    “So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].
    tags: accomplishment, action, impetus, inspirational
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    Malcolm X
    “Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land--every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike--all snored in the same language.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: diversity, humanity, language, snoring, tolerance
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    Malcolm X
    “We all like chicken”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: chicken
    45 likes



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