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    Alice Sebold
    “You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
    ― Alice Sebold
    tags: inspirational, rape, self-responsibility
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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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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  • #5
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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  • #6
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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  • #7
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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  • #8
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
    37058 likes

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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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  • #10
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
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  • #11
    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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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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  • #13
    “what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most”
    ― Jane Heller, An Ex to Grind
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    Jane Green
    “Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways”
    ― Jane Green
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  • #15
    Joy Fielding
    “We are who we pretend to be.”
    ― Joy Fielding
    tags: life
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  • #16
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #17
    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    ― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
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  • #18
    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
    9514 likes

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  • #19
    Sarah Dessen
    “Don't think or judge, just listen.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: inspirational-quotes
    10271 likes

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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Mitch Albom
    “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: death, life
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
    tags: friendship
    12515 likes

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  • #23
    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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    Mitch Albom
    “All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
    ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    tags: profound
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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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  • #26
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
    24397 likes

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  • #27
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: imagination, inspiration, writing
    6970 likes

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  • #28
    Carrie Fisher
    “I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
    ― Carrie Fisher
    tags: art, life
    389 likes

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  • #29
    Carrie Fisher
    “Instant gratification takes too long.”
    ― Carrie Fisher
    tags: humor
    109 likes

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  • #30
    Carrie Fisher
    “I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situation and then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions”
    ― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
    65 likes



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