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    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Helen Keller
    “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: by-anne-sullivan, emotions, feelings
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    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
    tags: love
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    Agatha Christie
    “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
    tags: impossible
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    Agatha Christie
    “Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
    "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House
    tags: humor, thinking
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    Agatha Christie
    “If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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    Agatha Christie
    “Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Labours of Hercules
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    Agatha Christie
    “One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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  • #10
    Agatha Christie
    “Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
    tags: instinct
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  • #11
    Agatha Christie
    “It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit
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    Agatha Christie
    “I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
    tags: abilities, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, feminist, gender, greatness, human-nature, husbands, hypocrisy, integrity, men, men-and-women, misogyny, penina-mezei, skills, stereotypes, strong, wives, women
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
    tags: books, character-development, growth, reading
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
    tags: blame, conduct-of-life, double-standards, hypocrisy, morality, social-norms
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”
    ― Dorothy Sayers , Gaudy Night
    tags: originality, quotations, thought
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness
    tags: woman, women
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    Rex Stout
    “We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
    ― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band
    tags: folly, foolishness, luck, merits, nero-wolfe, vainer, vainity, wisdom, wise
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    Rex Stout
    “Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.”
    ― Rex Stout, The Red Box
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    Rex Stout
    “[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
    ― Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance
    tags: optimists, pessimists, surprises
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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  • #22
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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    Donna Tartt
    “Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Donna Tartt
    “Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
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    Donna Tartt
    “Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
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