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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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    J.K. Rowling
    “He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: humor, shampoo
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    A.A. Milne
    “What day is it?” asked Pooh.
    “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
    “My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: live-in-the-moment, optimism
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
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    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    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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    Billy Joel
    “I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun.”
    ― Billy Joel
    tags: song-lyrics
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    ― Annie Proulx
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    “(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
    "How do you find America?"
    "Turn left at Greenland.”
    ― Ringo Starr
    tags: america, beatles, geography, greenland, humor, media, wordplay
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    Jarod Kintz
    “I’ve got lots of pictures of the four years I spent in collage.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: disapproval, humor, wordplay
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    Dorothy Parker
    “This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."

    [Women Know Everything!]”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: bad-reviews, fancy, raisins, terrible, wordplay
    744 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “A hangover is the wrath of grapes.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: humour
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    L. Frank Baum
    “Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.”
    ― L. Frank Baum
    tags: double-entendre
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    Brian Spellman
    “I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.”
    ― Brian Spellman, Cartoonist's Book Camp
    tags: arrogance, conceit, double-entendre, humor
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    John Green
    “Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

    [Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
    ― John Green
    tags: alone, creative-process, eye-contact, introverts, profession, story, storytelling, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, knowledge
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    Daniel J. Boorstin
    “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
    ― Daniel J. Boorstin
    tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking
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    Dan Brown
    “Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.”
    ― Dan Brown
    tags: knowledge, learning
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
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    Sharon Salzberg
    “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
    ― Sharon Salzberg
    tags: inspiration, life, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: desire, humor
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    Ian McEwan
    “It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
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    Ian McEwan
    “The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
    tags: daydreaming, dreams, fantasy, imagination, life
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    Ian McEwan
    “Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
    tags: meaning, self
    608 likes



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