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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Douglas Adams
    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humour
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    ― Irina Dunn
    tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: beauty, humour
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones."
    "You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: humour
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    George Carlin
    “If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
    ― George Carlin
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humour
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    Woody Allen
    “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
    ― Woody Allen
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    John Lennon
    “When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: humour, power-of-words
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    Woody Allen
    “I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.”
    ― Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay
    tags: humour, life
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    Veronica Roth
    “You're not very nice," I say, grinning.
    "You're one to talk."
    "Hey, I could be nice if I tried."
    "Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then."
    "You're very good-looking."
    He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. "I like this 'nice' thing.”
    ― veronica roth, Allegiant
    tags: allegiant, divergent, divergent-series, four, humour, tobias, tris, tris-and-tobias
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    “There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: fandom, fanfiction, fantasy, humour
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: books, christopher-hitchens, humour, literature, writing
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    Carl Hiaasen
    “Hey. Sometimes life is a shit flavored Popsicle.”
    ― Carl Hiaasen, Nature Girl
    tags: humour
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    Blaise Pascal
    “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: ironic, sad
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    Marian Keyes
    “Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.”
    ― Marian Keyes, Watermelon
    tags: funny, humour, love, relationships, women
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: humour
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
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    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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  • #29
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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  • #30
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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