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    Temple Grandin
    “I am different, not less.”
    ― Temple Grandin
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    Tom Clancy
    “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
    ― Tom Clancy
    tags: life
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    Tom Clancy
    “Beware the fury of a patient man”
    ― Tom Clancy
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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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    Blaise Cendrars
    “Humanity lives in its fiction.”
    ― Blaise Cendrars
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    Mary Renault
    “One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
    ― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
    tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy
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    Bob Newhart
    “I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
    ― Bob Newhart
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
    tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement
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    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
    "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
    "I don't much care where –"
    "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: adventure
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    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
    ― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, introspection, self-discovery
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    Lewis Carroll
    “One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
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    Lewis Carroll
    “I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Why it's simply impassible!
    Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
    Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: alice, alice-in-wonderland, door, funny, humor, wordplay
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
    'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
    'I don't much care where -' said Alice.
    'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
    '- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
    'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: choices, life-decisions
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    Lewis Carroll
    “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: adventure, explanations, patience, storytelling
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    Lewis Carroll
    “If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, humor
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    Lewis Carroll
    “I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-lewis-carroll
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    Lewis Carroll
    “have i gone mad?
    im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: humor
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
    "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
    "You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
    "Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: humor, less, more, nonsense, tea
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    Lewis Carroll
    “He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
    The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
    Alice: I don't much care where.
    The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go.
    Alice: ...So long as I get somewhere.
    The Cheshire Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
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  • #30
    “Everything is permitted, Nothing is true.”
    ― Oliver Bowden, Renaissance
    tags: ac, freedom, truth
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