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    Stieg Larsson
    “Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
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    Alan Bradley
    “Experience has taught me that an expected answer is often better than the truth.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
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    Conan O'Brien
    “If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
    ― Conan O'Brien
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
    tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden
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    Yves Saint-Laurent
    “We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
    ― Yves Saint Laurent
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    Steve Martin
    “I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
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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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    Sylvia Plath
    “Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    “If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
    ― Ed Sullivan
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
    tags: folly, preference, wisdom
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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    “Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn’t that there aren't any nice guys, the problem is that all of the nice guys are ugly.”
    ― Carroll Bryant
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    S.J. Parris
    “Because I believe God is bigger than the rules we impose on one another. I think He does not mind if we find different paths to Him.”
    ― S.J. Parris
    tags: god, secularism
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    George Eliot
    “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational
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    Patti Smith
    “Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
    ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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    Isaac Asimov
    “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Alan Bradley
    “One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimentality get in the way of simple logic.”
    ― Alan Bradley, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
    tags: adulthood, children, wisdom
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    Alan Bradley
    “Magic doesn’t work when you’re sad.”
    ― Alan Bradley, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
    tags: magic, sadness
    19 likes

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    John O'Hara
    “I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.”
    ― John O'hara
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    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: books, e-readers, kindle, reading
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    Dylan Thomas
    “Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”
    ― Dylan Thomas
    tags: agatha-christie, poetry, reading
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    Alexander McCall Smith
    “Women are the ones who knows what's going on,' she said quietly . 'They are the ones with eyes. Have you not heard of Agatha Christie?”
    ― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
    tags: agatha-christie, women
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    Connie Willis
    “I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).”
    ― Connie Willis, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories
    tags: agatha-christie, plot, plotting
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    Omar Khayyám
    “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
    ― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
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    Umberto Eco
    “To survive, you must tell stories.”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before
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