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    David Mitchell
    “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: books, love, reading
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    Robert T. Kiyosaki
    “In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.”
    ― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
    tags: humanity, inspirational, mistakes, risk, school
    817 likes

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    Aung San Suu Kyi
    “The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
    ― Aung San Suu Kyi
    tags: civil-rights
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    Pearl S. Buck
    “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
    ― Pearl S. Buck
    tags: contentment
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
    tags: inspirational
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    Temple Grandin
    “I am different, not less.”
    ― Temple Grandin
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
    tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement
    4396 likes

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    Ingmar Bergman
    “Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
    ― Ingmar Bergman
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    William Saroyan
    “When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
    ― William Saroyan
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    Mary Renault
    “One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
    ― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
    tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy
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    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
    6205 likes

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    Eavan Boland
    “As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
    ― Eavan Boland
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    Chinua Achebe
    “The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
    ― Chinua Achebe
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    Haruki Murakami
    “What happens when people open their hearts?"
    "They get better.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: healing, vulnerability
    6690 likes

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    Gregory David Roberts
    “Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”
    ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
    tags: falling-in-love, happiness, heartbreak
    678 likes

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    Doris Lessing
    “Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
    ― Doris Lessing
    tags: friendship, love, trust
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  • #17
    I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
    “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: truth
    11973 likes

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    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope
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    Tom Perrotta
    “Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
    ― Tom Perrotta, Election
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    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    Nawal El Saadawi
    “Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
    ― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
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    Evelyn Waugh
    “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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    Susanna Clarke
    “And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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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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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    George Carlin
    “Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
    Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
    Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: dreams, humor
    2242 likes

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    Gloria Whelan
    “They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
    ― Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions
    tags: artistic, bohemian, change-the-world, doing, talking, visonary
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, fire, star, universe
    4490 likes

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    Colleen Hoover
    “Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Slammed
    tags: life
    4291 likes



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