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    Robert Frost
    “We dance round in a ring and suppose,
    But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: inspirational
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    Margaret Atwood
    “There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “He was clearly aware of only one thing, his own total isolation. The world had fallen out from under him, and he was left alone.

    To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
    tags: death
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “If only my heart were stone.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: heart
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: action, information, sleep
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: ambiguity, certainty, humility, knowledge, policy
    970 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: attributed-no-source, humor, misattributed-douglas-adams, wit
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    Stanisław Lem
    “I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.”
    ― Stanislaw Lem
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    E.E. Cummings
    “mr youse needn't be so spry
    concernin questions arty

    each has his tastes but as for i
    i likes a certain party

    gimme the he-man's solid bliss
    for youse ideas i'll match youse

    a pretty girl who naked is
    is worth a million statues”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: humor, sex
    58 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: better
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: happiness, human-nature, psychology, social-commentary
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. ”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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    Douglas Adams
    “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: atheism, religion, skeptic
    3594 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: epistemology, future, philosophy
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I intend to get out of here. It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: attitude, fire, hope, inspirational, persistence
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    Jane Gaskell
    “And there was something else, it seemed, now permanently part of her life. Doubt, and suspicion too, filled all that there was room for in her waking thoughts.”
    ― Jane Gaskell, Strange Evil
    tags: doubt, life
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    Jane Gaskell
    “Will you not see?” she cried. “You are not as other men are. Why need you bow to a Fate? Can you not change it?”
    ― Jane Gaskell, Strange Evil
    tags: destiny, fate
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    Jane Gaskell
    “Yes – But – Well, it is yours to choose. I do not force anyone. Is it a hard choice?”
    “No-o.” Judith shook her head. “Except that I do not know which to choose.”
    ― Jane Gaskell, Strange Evil
    tags: choices, decisions
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    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: music, philosophy, progress
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    Colin Jost
    “We have to remember that progress isn’t just a straight line upwards, O.K.?
    It’s a weird roller coaster where sometimes you’re screaming for joy, and other times you’re barfing in your own face.”
    ― Colin Jost
    tags: life, life-lessons, progress
    16 likes

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    Harry G. Frankfurt
    “Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.”
    ― Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit
    57 likes



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