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    Tuli Kupferberg
    “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
    ― Tuli Kupferberg
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    Guy Gavriel Kay
    “There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
    ― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
    tags: destiny, path
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: love, obsession, sleep
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  • #4
    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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  • #5
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
    8571 likes

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    Jo Walton
    “It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
    ― Jo Walton, Among Others
    tags: books
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    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist
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    Jules Verne
    “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
    ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
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  • #9
    Sarah Vowell
    “We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
    ― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
    tags: flaws, individuality, inspirational
    1809 likes

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  • #10
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: courage, determination, hope, risk
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    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    Henry Austin Dobson
    “Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
    ― Henry Austin Dobson
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  • #13
    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith
    tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude
    3495 likes

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    Tami Hoag
    “We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
    ― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse
    tags: inspirational
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    Walter Scott
    “All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
    ― Sir Walter Scott
    tags: education, homeschool
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  • #16
    John Grisham
    “Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
    ― John Grisham, The Rainmaker
    tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime
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  • #17
    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: inspirational
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  • #18
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #19
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Art is not a mirror held up to reality
    but a hammer with which to shape it.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fantasy, fear, kvothe, man-s, name, patrick-rothfuss, wind, wise
    3417 likes

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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: humor, wisdom
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    Alan Bradley
    “I gave her a partial smile and kept the rest of it for myself...”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
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    Alan Bradley
    “Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky. ”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
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    Alan Bradley
    “If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
    tags: inspirational
    126 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177064 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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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
    130143 likes

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  • #28
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #29
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
    88100 likes

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  • #31
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    89095 likes



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