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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Coco Chanel
    “In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: individuality
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    Jane Austen
    “A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: knowledge, women
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    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    ― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters
    tags: friends, humor, people
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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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    “The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.”
    ― Cher
    tags: marriage, women
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    Coco Chanel
    “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
    ― Coco Chanel
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    Coco Chanel
    “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
    ― Coco Chanel
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    Coco Chanel
    “I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”
    ― Coco Chanel
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: aging-well, disillusionment, growing-older, philosophy
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: death, love
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: writing
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    Salman Rushdie
    “When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."

    [Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: books, ideas, impact, readers, reading
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    Salman Rushdie
    “Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
    tags: aims, courage, creative-process, empowerment, experience, guenter-grass, memory, record-of-life, strength, writing
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    Salman Rushdie
    “Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.”
    ― Salman Rushdie
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    Salman Rushdie
    “Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.”
    ― Salman Rushdie
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    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    ― Moliere
    tags: inspirational, patience
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    “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
    ― Robert J. Hanlon
    tags: evil, malice, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, misattributed-to-einstein, stupidity
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    Pierre de Beaumarchais
    “Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

    (Aujourd'hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.)”
    ― Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville
    tags: singing, stupidity
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    John Lennon
    “There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, destiny, fate, life
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    Voltaire
    “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

    (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: enmity, humor, prayers, religion, ridicule, satire, social-justice, social-life
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    Voltaire
    “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: god, voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: food
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    Voltaire
    “I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
    (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: denial, fear, reality, truth, truth-hurts, truth-quotes, truths
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    Voltaire
    “Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
    tags: optimism
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