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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: fantasy, humor, scifi
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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
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Osman Welela
    “The thousand stars that shine in the light of day”
    ― Osman Welela, Lights In The Rain
    tags: imagination
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    Osman Welela
    “A golden past
    That flees so fast,”
    ― Osman Welela, Lights In The Rain
    tags: life, time
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    Osman Welela
    “Just like life, it was only the contrast with darkness that had made it seem brighter.”
    ― Osman Welela, Reddrops
    tags: darkness, death, life
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    Osman Welela
    “May the stars ever shine on your path, and the darkness never leave your side.”
    ― Osman Welela, Of Men Made Gods
    tags: ignorance, knowledge, wisdom
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    Osman Welela
    “...his tortured voice lost in the much grander cries of the world around him.”
    ― Osman Welela, Of Men Made Gods
    tags: pain
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    Osman Welela
    “...pain that would have made even a god shiver in terror.”
    ― Osman Welela, Of Men Made Gods
    tags: agony, pain
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    Osman Welela
    “Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.”
    ― Osman Welela, Of Men Made Gods
    tags: mother, parent, protection, sacrifice, war
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    Osman Welela
    “You know worries are made to be shared, don't you?”
    ― Osman Welela, Of Men Made Gods
    tags: sharing, worries
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    Osman Welela
    “Sometimes believing is as simple as choosing to do so.”
    ― Osman Welela, Of Men Made Gods
    tags: love, openness, trust
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    Osman Welela
    “The greatest of our virtues and the worst of our sins is wanting nothing less than more.”
    ― Osman Welela, Kingdom
    tags: greed, power, wisdom
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    Osman Welela
    “Magic is a trick, and the trick is to believe it's real.”
    ― Osman Welela, Kingdom
    tags: belief, magic, trick
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    Barbara Hambly
    “But that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I’ve ever learned about anything—that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it—and its choice to be there—are gone.”
    ― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: inspiration
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: blood, cruelty, fear, gods, religion, suffering
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: dreams
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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    Sidney Sheldon
    “A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
    ― Sidney Sheldon
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  • #28
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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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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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
    39952 likes



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