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    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.”
    ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
    tags: african-americans, blacks, life, reality, world
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    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
    ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
    tags: african-americans, being-yourself, blacks, growing-up, race-relations, racism, self
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    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promise of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”
    ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
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    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “I believed, and still do, that our bodies are our selves, that my soul is the voltage conducted through neurons and nerves, and that my spirit is my flesh.”
    ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
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    Ken Liu
    “Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.”
    ― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
    tags: communication, miracle, translation
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    Ken Liu
    “What is fate but coincidences in retrospect?”
    ― Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings
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    Ken Liu
    “We are defined by the places we hold in the web of others’ lives.”
    ― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
    tags: defined, life, web
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    Ken Liu
    “We spend our entire lives trying to tell stories about ourselves—they’re the essence of memory. It is how we make living in this unfeeling, accidental universe tolerable.”
    ― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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    Ken Liu
    “But being the mirrors for each other's souls has a cost: by the time they part from each other, the individuals in the mating pair have become indistinguishable. Before their merger, they each yearned for the other; as they part, they part from the self. The very quality that attracted them to each other is also, inevitably, destroyed in their union.”
    ― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
    tags: cost, merger, mirror, other, self, soul, union
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  • #10
    Robert B. Cialdini
    “Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed.”
    ― Robert Cialdini, Influence: Science and Practice
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    tags: memory
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro
    tags: inspirational, missed-chances
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    tags: 208, solitude
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    tags: never-let-me-go
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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    Terry Pratchett
    “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: einstein, gaiman, god, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Mort
    tags: death, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: birth, identity, life, self
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
    tags: inspirational
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    Paulo Coelho
    “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    “When Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters. He did not know how quickly it would wick the dew off her, how she would be returned to him hollowed out, relieved of her better parts.”
    ― Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
    tags: daughters, fathers
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    “There is this thing that distance does where it subtracts warm and context and history and each finds that they are arguing with a stranger.”
    ― Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
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    “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
    In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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  • #26
    Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
    “Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
    tags: evil, monsters, murderers
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  • #27
    Sarah Waters
    “I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
    ― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
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    Sarah Waters
    “And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.”
    ― Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger
    tags: grief, mourning, moving-on, sadness
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    Sarah Waters
    “Even ashes are a part of your freedom.”
    ― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
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    Sarah Waters
    “Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.”
    ― Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
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