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    Miranda July
    “Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.”
    ― Miranda July
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    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    ― Tom Bodett
    tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing
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    Ralph Ellison
    “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: books, reading
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    Steve Wozniak
    “If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
    ― Steve Wozniak
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    Neil LaBute
    “The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
    ― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty
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    Cassandra Clare
    “If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
    tags: will-herondale
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    Jonathan Ames
    “I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
    ― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: infinity
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    Jean Shepherd
    “The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
    ― Jean Shepherd
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    Cassandra Clare
    “to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: destruction, love
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
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    Virginia Lee Burton
    “Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before...but the little house stayed just the same.”
    ― Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House
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    David McCullough
    “Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."

    (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)”
    ― David McCullough
    tags: clarity, creative-process, precision, thinking, thought, writing
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    Mary Renault
    “One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
    ― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
    tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy
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    Mary Stewart
    “Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
    ― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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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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    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
    tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom
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    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
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    Stephen Greenblatt
    “I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
    ― Stephen Greenblatt
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “After all, tomorrow is another day!”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “Patience is a conquering virtue.”
    ― Geoffrey Chaucer
    tags: canterbury-tales, chaucer, franklin-s-tale, patience
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    Gillian Flynn
    “I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
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    Paula Hawkins
    “I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.”
    ― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
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    Tom Hiddleston
    “Every villain is a hero in his own mind.”
    ― Tom Hiddleston
    tags: actor, awesome, different, hero, hiddleston, inspiring, loki, odd, thought-provoking, tom, true, villan, wonderful
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    Tom Hiddleston
    “Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.”
    ― Tom Hiddleston
    tags: dreams, inspirational, the-sky-s-the-limit, tom-hiddleston
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    Tom Hiddleston
    “Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.”
    ― Tom Hiddleston
    tags: actor, choice
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    Tom Hiddleston
    “Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.”
    ― Tom Hiddleston
    tags: inspirational, tom-hiddleston
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