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    Rick Riordan
    “It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: humanity, humans, mankind, reality
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    Lisa Alther
    “I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.”
    ― Lisa Alther
    tags: attitude, intelligence
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    Douglas Adams
    “I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: humor, judgement
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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
    32212 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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  • #6
    “Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
    ― Gene Fowler
    tags: humor-writing-craft
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    Douglas Adams
    “If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: egotism, zaphod-beeblebrox
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    Douglas Adams
    “He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
    tags: humor, paradox, religion
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    Douglas Adams
    “One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humans, humor, interesting
    885 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: equality, life, logic, opinions
    818 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
    tags: psychology
    801 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: humor, novelist, science-fiction
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    Douglas Adams
    “Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: zaphod-beeblebrox
    211 likes

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    David Sedaris
    “If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
    ― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
    tags: sympathy
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    David Sedaris
    “I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”
    ― David Sedaris, Naked
    tags: changing-others
    995 likes

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    Christopher Paolini
    “Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”
    ― Christopher Paolini
    tags: common-sense, humor, smart
    3168 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: empathy-psychology
    407 likes

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    Conan O'Brien
    “When all else fails, there's always delusion.”
    ― Conan O'Brien
    tags: absurd, life
    227 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: college, semicolons, writing
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  • #23
    “Be to her virtues very kind,
    Be to her faults a little blind.”
    ― Matthew Prior, The poetical works of Matthew Prior
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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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
    2526 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
    5153 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    421 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-roles, suffrage, womens-rights
    1123 likes

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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    643 likes



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