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    Sherman Alexie
    “She told me that every other step was just for me.'
    But that's only half of the dance,' I said.
    Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy.”
    ― Sherman Alexie
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    Brian Selznick
    “Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.”
    ― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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    Isaac Asimov
    “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    A.A. Milne
    “Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”
    ― A.A. Milne
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    William Goldman
    “Who says life is fair, where is that written?”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: fair, life, unfair
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    William Goldman
    “We’ll never survive!”
    “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: doubt, humor, optimism, survival
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    William Goldman
    “You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: solitude, sorrow
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    William Goldman
    “I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: gandalf, grief
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    Isaac Asimov
    “People think of education as something they can finish.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: education
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life
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    Isaac Asimov
    “THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, The Last Question
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: asimov, second-foundation
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    Isaac Asimov
    “you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
    tags: robots
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    Isaac Asimov
    “A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
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    Douglas Adams
    “We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
    tags: psychology
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: fear
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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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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    A.A. Milne
    “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: humor, idleness, inspirational
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    A.A. Milne
    “I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    A.A. Milne
    “Think it over, think it under.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    A.A. Milne
    “Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits...”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: thinking
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    A.A. Milne
    “When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.”
    ― A.A. Milne
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    A.A. Milne
    “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.”
    ― A.A.Milne
    tags: experience, humorous-quotations, judgment
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    A.A. Milne
    “They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
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    Jason Fagone
    “making yourself understood to another person is essentially a problem of cryptology.”
    ― Jason Fagone, The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
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    Haruki Murakami
    “We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Maybe in a few years I'll be able to explain things better, but after a few years it probably won't matter anymore, will it?”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Memory works in different ways for everybody. Different capacities, different directions, too. Sometimes memory helps you think, sometimes it impedes. Doesn’t mean it’s good or bad. Probably means it’s no big deal.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
    tags: memory
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