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    David Sedaris
    “It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.”
    ― David Sedaris
    tags: fashion
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    David Sedaris
    “The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.”
    ― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
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    David Sedaris
    “This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.”
    ― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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    David Sedaris
    “Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings”
    ― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
    tags: discretion, tact
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    David Sedaris
    “I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven.”
    ― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice
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    David Sedaris
    “What's the trick to remembering that a sandwich is masculine? What qualities does it share with anyone in possession of a penis? I'll tell myself that a sandwich is masculine because if left alone for a week or two, it will eventually grow a beard.”
    ― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
    tags: french, humor, language
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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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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: inspirational, life, spiritual, uplifting
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    Emily Dickinson
    “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Mother Teresa
    “Live simply so others may simply live.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa
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    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: men, rescuing, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth
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    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. ”
    ― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream
    tags: responsibility
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    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.”
    ― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream
    tags: goals, life, work
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    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.”
    ― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream
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    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.”
    ― Hubert Selby Jr.
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    “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
    ― W.T. Purkiser
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: gratitude
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    Neal A. Maxwell
    “We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”
    ― Neal A. Maxwell
    tags: gratitude
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: gratitude, sincerity
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: inspirational
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    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: gratitude, happiness
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    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    “One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life. ”
    ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
    ― Deitrich Bonhoeffer
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. ”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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