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    Eric Flint
    “Jeff watched her come, the whole time. He never noticed her mincing, hesitant steps on treacherous heels. He was simply swept up in the ancient ceremony. And discovering, as untold millions of young men had discovered before him, that there is nothing in the world as beautiful as his bride approaching.”
    ― Eric Flint, 1632
    tags: chapter-30, husband, marriage, wife
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    Naomi Novik
    “Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!”
    ― Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
    tags: books, reading, temeraire
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    Earl Mac Rauch
    “Wherever you go, there you are..
    (Buckaroo Banzai)”
    ― Earl Mac Rauch, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
    tags: buckaroo-banzai
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    J. Michael Straczynski
    “Delenn: "The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station, and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff.”
    ― J. Michael Straczynski
    tags: a-distant-star, babylon-5, the-coming-of-shadows
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    Neil Gaiman
    “A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

    (As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: books, dreams
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, books, re-reading, reading
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    Francis Bacon
    “If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
    ― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
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    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
    tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey
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    Naomi Novik
    “I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.”
    ― Naomi Novik, Throne of Jade
    tags: sff, snark, temeraire
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    Naomi Novik
    “It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go there”
    ― Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
    tags: dragon, laws, parliament
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    Naomi Novik
    “It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.”
    ― Naomi Novik, Tongues of Serpents
    tags: leadership
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    Naomi Novik
    “Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.”
    ― Naomi Novik, Black Powder War
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: books
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    Neal Stephenson
    “The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.”
    ― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.
    This is but half the truth.
    You are also as strong as your strongest link.
    To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean
    by the frailty of its foam.
    To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: confidence, poetry, strength
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    J. Michael Straczynski
    “If you're going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.”
    ― J. Michael Straczynski
    tags: marcus-cole
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    J. Michael Straczynski
    “Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.”
    ― J. Michael Straczynski
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    J. Michael Straczynski
    “If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.”
    ― J. Michael Straczynski
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    J. Michael Straczynski
    “The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.”
    ― J. Michael Straczynski
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: painting, self-doubt
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Invisible things are the only realities.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath
    tags: humor, satire
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Just because you can doesn't mean you should.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon
    tags: inspirational
    1960 likes

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    Cassandra Clare
    “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
    tags: chapter-24, life, will-herondale
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: storytelling-story-tales
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    Washington Irving
    “There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
    ― Washington Irving
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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