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    Jack Kerouac
    “Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?”
    ― Jack Kerouac, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “The weight of the world is love.
    Under the burden of solitude,
    under the burden of dissatisfaction
    the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
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    Jack Kerouac
    “because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: travel, wanderlust
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    Jack Kerouac
    “We agreed to love each other madly.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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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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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    John Updike
    “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
    ― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    William Allingham
    “Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”
    ― William Allingham
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    Dan Brown
    “God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
    tags: god, prayers
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    Elizabeth Moon
    “Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
    ― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark
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    Dan Brown
    “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
    tags: books, dan-brown, religion, science
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: be-yourself, self-expression
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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    Harlan Ellison
    “The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.”
    ― Harlan Ellison, Stalking the Nightmare
    tags: writing
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “For you, a thousand times over”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling
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    Carol Shields
    “Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
    ― Carol Shields
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    H.L. Mencken
    “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, whiskey
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    James Dean
    “Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.”
    ― James Dean
    tags: life-and-death
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: gay, gay-rights, humor, oral-sex, politics
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    Heinrich Böll
    “بی خداها حوصله ام را سر می برند، چون فقط درباره خدا حرف می زنند!”
    ― Heinrich Böll, The Clown
    tags: atheists, god
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    René Char
    “I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
    ― René Char
    tags: resistance, words
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    Jean Craighead George
    “Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”
    ― Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Maud Hart Lovelace
    “She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”
    ― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
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