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    David Koepp
    “The fucking deer just took the fucking elevator.”
    ― David Koepp, Cold Storage
    tags: humor
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    Peter F. Hamilton
    “babies are God’s way of persuading parents to have teenagers.”
    ― Peter F. Hamilton, Misspent Youth
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    Gore Vidal
    “The unfed mind devours itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “No good deed goes unpunished”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.”
    ― Gore Vidal
    tags: press
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    Gore Vidal
    “There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “Never offend an enemy in a small way.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Julian
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    Gore Vidal
    “Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.”
    ― Gore Vidal
    tags: appearance, cold, icy, unfeeling, unloving
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    Gore Vidal
    “The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.”
    ― Gore Vidal
    tags: being-right, confidence, correctness, exactitude
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    Gore Vidal
    “It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.”
    ― Gore Vidal
    tags: charlie-rose-show, life-philosophy, opinions-of-others
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    Gore Vidal
    “Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back.”
    ― Gore Vidal
    tags: corruption, country, liars, media, politics, truth
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    Gore Vidal
    “No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Julian
    tags: love, self-loving
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  • #17
    Gore Vidal
    “Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    William Golding
    “There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.”
    ― William Golding, The Spire
    tags: love, rivalry
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    William Golding
    “There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.”
    ― William Golding, The Spire
    tags: contemplation, fire, kinship, life
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    William Golding
    “I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.”
    ― William Golding, The Spire
    tags: belief, impossibility, money, power
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
    10515 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
    5360 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
    tags: music
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    Aldous Huxley
    “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point
    tags: change
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    Aldous Huxley
    “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays
    tags: history, lessons
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Do what you will: Twelve essays
    tags: consistency
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
    tags: attention, my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation, ottessa-moshfegh, proud
    648 likes

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    Junot Díaz
    “And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
    ― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her
    tags: breaking-up
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    Ted Dekker
    “How, then, does one find and know peace and power in this life when surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses who only pretend to be clean by whitewashing their reputations while pointing fingers of judgment?”
    ― Ted Dekker, A.D. 33
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