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    Anne Brontë
    “It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
    ― Anne Brontë
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    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    ― Amy Bloom
    tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance
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    Ingmar Bergman
    “Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
    ― Ingmar Bergman
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    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    Jane Austen
    “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Sarah Vowell
    “Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
    ― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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    James Joyce
    “Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
    tags: fiction, first-lines, ireland, opening-lines, shaving
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Accio Brain!”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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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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    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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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
    ― Steven Kloves
    tags: movie-quote
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    Mary Gaitskill
    “My ambition was to live like music.”
    ― Mary Gaitskill
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: humanity, kindness, relationships
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    W.G. Sebald
    “It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
    ― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo
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    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams
    tags: night, poetry
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    Mark Twain
    “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
    ― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    tags: imagination
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Stephen King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    L. Frank Baum
    “Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
    ― L. Frank Baum
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    The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
    “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
    ― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts
    tags: alchemy, writing
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    Noël Coward
    “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
    ― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit
    tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8
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    Anna Quindlen
    “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
    ― Anna Quindlen
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