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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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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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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
    tags: family-relationships
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Paulo Coelho
    “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: love
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  • #9
    Scott Adams
    “I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”
    ― Scott Adams
    tags: food, humor, love
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  • #10
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: hate, love
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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
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    Russell Banks
    “Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
    ― Russell Banks, Continental Drift
    tags: books
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it”
    ― Flannery O' Connor, Wise Blood
    tags: memories
    439 likes

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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates
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  • #16
    “She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.”
    ― Robert Crais
    tags: humor
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    Alan Bradley
    “As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

    No ... eight days a week.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
    tags: book-lover
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    B.A. Paris
    “We go downstairs and in the hall, he takes my coat from the cupboard and holds it open while I slip my arms into it. In the drive outside, he holds the car door for me and waits until I’m in. As he closes it behind me, I can’t help thinking it’s a shame he’s such a sadistic bastard, because he has wonderful manners.”
    ― B.A. Paris, Behind Closed Doors
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    Annette Dabrowska
    “All these bad experiences that we go through, they don't just disappear. We carry them our whole life trying to forget, escaping in habits, addictions, hate, toxic relationships. But what we don't know is that by doing so we let them stay alive. We water them like withered flowers and we hang onto them to justify our mistakes and failures.”
    ― Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon
    tags: experience, fighting-spirit, hope, life, strength
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    Albert Einstein
    “Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends
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  • #23
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Laini Taylor
    “Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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    E.M. Forster
    “Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”
    ― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
    tags: criticism, exaggeration, long-book, overpraising, praise, reading, reading-books, reviewing
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  • #28
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I was reading.”
    ― Ghandi
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    Lisa Scottoline
    “I can't stand just sitting here not doing anything. You can't solve a problem by remote control.”
    ― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes
    tags: every-fifteen-minutes, lisa-scottoline
    712 likes

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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
    tags: autumn, fall, first-frost, garden-spells, lost-lake, sarah-addison-allen, waverly
    1436 likes



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