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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: activism, life, philosophical
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    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.”
    ― Alfred Hitchcock
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    ― Nikolai V. Gogol
    tags: humor, sadness
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: cute, funny, sad, stupid
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    J.D. Salinger
    “It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: bluffing, confusion
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    William Goldman
    “Inconceivable!"
    "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: bride, funny, humor, movie, princess
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “My name is Celaena Sardothien. But it makes no difference if my name's Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I'd still beat you, no matter what you call me.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: assassin
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    Rick Riordan
    “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
    tags: nico
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    Jon Stewart
    “I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.”
    ― Jon Stewart
    tags: canada, funny
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    Frank Miller
    “I'm the goddamn Batman.”
    ― Frank Miller, All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder
    tags: batman, humor
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Why are you crying?"
    "Because," she whispered, her voice shaking, "you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Second place is a nice title for the first loser.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
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    Brigham Young
    “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
    ― Brigham Young
    tags: education, feminism, men, women
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Gods, he was brilliant. Cunning and wicked and brilliant.
    Even when he beat the hell out of her. Every. Damn. Day.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
    tags: rowan-whitethorn
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    Mark Twain
    “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, men, women
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “What are you doing?”
    “What?”
    Emrys didn’t raise his voice as he said, “To that girl. What are you doing that makes her come in here with such emptiness in her eyes?”
    “That’s none of your concern.”
    Emrys pressed his lips into a tight line. “What do you see when you look at her, Prince?”
    He didn’t know. These days, he didn’t know a damn thing. “That’s none of your concern, either.”
    Emrys ran a hand over his weathered face. “I see her slipping away, bit by bit, because you shove her down when she so desperately needs someone to help her back up.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
    tags: rowan-whitethorn
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “I claim you, Aelin. To whatever end.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
    tags: rowan-whitethorn
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    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    ― Herbert Hoover
    tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “These days, I am very glad to be a mortal, and to only have to endure this life once. These days, I don't envy you at all."

    "And before?"

    It was her turn to stare toward the horizon. "I used to wish I had a chance to see it all- and hated that I never would.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
    tags: celaena-sardothien, rowan-whitethorn
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    R.L. Stine
    “Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
    ― R.L. Stine
    tags: diversity, horror, reading
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  • #36
    Kristen Britain
    “It's good to leave behind all that is comfortable and known every so often. It opens one's mind to the wide world.”
    ― Kristen Britain, Blackveil
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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  • #38
    Rick Riordan
    “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: inspirational, life, meaning
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    John Green
    “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
    ― John Green
    tags: humor, nerdfighters
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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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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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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  • #41
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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