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    Rachel Joyce
    “That's what nobody realizes. Two seconds are huge. It's the difference between something happening and something not happening. You could take one step too many and fall over the edge of a cliff. It's very dangerous.”
    ― Rachel Joyce, Perfect
    tags: time
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    Rachel Joyce
    “And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.”
    ― Rachel Joyce, Perfect
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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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    Seanan McGuire
    “If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.”
    ― Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue
    tags: books, funny, ironic, rosemary-and-rue, seanan-mcguire
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  • #5
    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: poetry
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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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    J.D. Salinger
    “Give me an honest con man any day.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
    tags: paradox
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    J.D. Salinger
    “She was not one for emptying her face of expression. ”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
    tags: emotion, expression, face
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    Jane Smiley
    “Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”
    ― Jane Smiley
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    Émile Zola
    “Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
    ― Emile Zola
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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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    Anaïs Nin
    “I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, art
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    Chuck Klosterman
    “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
    ― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
    tags: art, love, profound
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: innocence, justice, mercy, wickedness
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    Ayn Rand
    “There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: crime, government, innocence, law, libertarian
    353 likes

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    Joan Didion
    “Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”
    ― Joan Didion, On Self-Respect
    tags: disillusionment, innocence, self-acceptance
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
    23459 likes

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  • #20
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
    27874 likes



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