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    Susanna Clarke
    “A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.”
    ― Susanna Clarke
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    Susanna Clarke
    “To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.”
    ― Susanna Clarke
    tags: humor
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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
    “Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: buttercup, garden, heart, hidden-treasure, love, secret, the-princess-bride, walls, william-goldman
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    William Goldman
    “Who are you?"
    "No one of consequence."
    "I must know."
    "Get used to disappointment.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: anonymity, consequence, identity, importance, inquisitiveness
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    William Goldman
    “Love is many things none of them logical.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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    William Goldman
    “Why do you wear a mask and hood?"
    I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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    William Goldman
    “This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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    Vandana Shiva
    “You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
    ― Vandana Shiva
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    Henrik Ibsen
    “It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”
    ― Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts
    tags: happiness
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
    tags: death, humor, life
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
    tags: books, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    tags: humor, science
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
    Death thought about it.
    CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
    tags: cats, death, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “And what would humans be without love?"
    RARE, said Death.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
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    Terry Pratchett
    “No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
    "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
    "What?"
    "Oh, you'd like something simpler?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
    tags: absurd, humor, interrogation, police
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Terry Pratchett
    “There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: full, hat, pratchett, sky, terry
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
    tags: humor, life, movies
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
    12466 likes

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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
    12934 likes

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    Dan Simmons
    “Choose again.”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion
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