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    Margaret Atwood
    “That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first in your head, and then you make it real.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: death
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: grudge, letting-go, moving-forward, past
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    Carl Sagan
    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: science
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    John Green
    “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
    ― John Green
    tags: vlog
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: language, perception, power-of-words
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    George Orwell
    “I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984, nineteen-eighty-four
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    Jane Austen
    “It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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    Veronica Roth
    “You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
    tags: belief, truth
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
    'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
    'I don't much care where -' said Alice.
    'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
    '- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
    'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: choices, life-decisions
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    Clark Zlotchew
    “Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
    ― Clark Zlotchew
    tags: 1950s, adolescent-angst, adventure, cuba, deep-south, havana, high-seas, homophobia, love, navy, old-days, political-intrigue, prostitution, racism, rite-of-passage, savannah, segregation, sex, sexism, ships, short-stories, short-story-collection, stories, unrequited-love
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    Jane Austen
    “There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
    "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
    "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: character, defects, dislike, education, hatred, misunderstanding, propensity, repartee, retort, wit
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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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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    Brandon Mull
    “When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.”
    ― Brandon Mull, Grip of the Shadow Plague
    tags: humor
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    Brandon Mull
    “Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
    ― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven
    tags: mistakes
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    Chris Heimerdinger
    “Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.”
    ― Chris Heimerdinger, Feathered Serpent, Part 2
    tags: inspirational
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humor, philosophy
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    James Patterson
    “Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
    ― James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
    tags: humor
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    James Patterson
    “Man, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?"
    "Why, is your head missing some?" I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd been”
    ― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
    tags: humor, mamimum, maximum-ride, ride, rock
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    James Patterson
    “Here's a freebie: Don't play poker with a kid who can read minds.”
    ― James Patterson, The Final Warning
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    James Patterson
    “In the dictionary, next to the word stress, there is a picture of a midsize mutant stuck inside a dog crate, wondering if her destiny is to be killed or to save the world. Okay, not really. But there should be.”
    ― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
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    James Patterson
    “I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing”
    ― James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
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    James Patterson
    “What happened to your tan?"--Fang
    "It was dirt." --Max”
    ― James Patterson, The Final Warning
    tags: humor, maxride
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    James Patterson
    “I'm not Stubborn; I'm right!”
    ― James Patterson, Max
    393 likes



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