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    Paul Klee
    “One eye sees, the other feels.”
    ― Paul Klee
    tags: art
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    Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
    “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
    ― Eleanor Hodgman Porter
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    Robert Penn Warren
    “Tell me a story of deep delight.”
    ― Robert Penn Warren
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    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    ― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist
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    Chris Abani
    “What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
    ― Chris Abani
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    Stan Lee
    “Face front, true believers!”
    ― Stan Lee
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    Mary Higgins Clark
    “Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
    ― Mary Higgins Clark, Loves Music, Loves to Dance
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    Václav Havel
    “The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
    ― Vaclav Havel
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    Patti Smith
    “No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
    ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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    Charles Lamb
    “Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
    ― Charles Lamb
    tags: new-years
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    Kenneth Rexroth
    “Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
    Slow horses and fast women.”
    ― Kenneth Rexroth
    458 likes

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    Anthony Powell
    “I get a warm feeling among my books.”
    ― Anthony Powell
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Stephen W. Hawking
    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: inspirational, science
    3945 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky
    tags: normalcy
    1863 likes

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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
    7585 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
    ― Albert Camus, A Happy Death
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    Thomas Paine
    “These are the times that try men's souls.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
    tags: adversity, american-revolution, trials
    1620 likes

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    Evelyn Waugh
    “It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
    1183 likes

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    Alan Paton
    “Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
    ― Alan Paton
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    Lorrie Moore
    “One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
    ― Lorrie Moore, Like Life: Stories
    tags: hide, protect, shelter
    635 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    ― Haruki Marukami
    tags: expectation
    6488 likes

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    Louis Menand
    “Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.”
    ― Louis Menand
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    My course is set for an uncharted sea.
    “My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
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    Colette
    “I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
    ― Colette
    1988 likes

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    W.C. Fields
    “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
    ― W.C. Fields
    tags: labels, names
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    Anchee Min
    “The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree”
    ― Anchee Min, Empress Orchid
    tags: luck
    771 likes

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    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    ― Moliere
    tags: inspirational, patience
    2694 likes

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    Susan Sontag
    “Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: attention, eagerness
    1561 likes

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    Anne Brontë
    “It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
    ― Anne Brontë
    1762 likes



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