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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
    49878 likes

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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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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
    32144 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    George Carlin
    “No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.”
    ― George Carlin, Brain Droppings
    tags: humor, philosophy
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Mark Twain
    “His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.”
    ― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    tags: mark-twain
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    Laini Taylor
    “A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: humor, mark-twain, mustaches
    83 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness.

    "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: definition-untranslatable-words
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: ink, invisible, pages, writing
    756 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., A Man Without a Country
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: atheism, expectation, humanism, humanist, morality, reward, secular-morality
    609 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
    tags: syllogism
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I can have oodles of charm when I want to.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
    tags: creation, destruction, flawed, human-character, human-nature
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Life is no way to treat an animal.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: dostoeyevksy, the-brothers-karamazov
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
    tags: breakfast-of-champions, girls, kurt-vonnegut, machines, manipulation, thinking, women
    303 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge of Courage," "The Iliad and The Odyssey," "Crime and Punishment," the Bible, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" — are all about what a bummer it is to be a ...human being?”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: life, literature
    157 likes

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  • #30
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    85 likes



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