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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    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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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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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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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: hope, inspirational, love
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe
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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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    Aaron Copland
    “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
    ― Aaron Copland
    tags: music
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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    Patricia A. McKillip
    “Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
    ― Patricia A. McKillip
    tags: imagination
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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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    William Shakespeare
    “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: love
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
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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: humor, scifi
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    John Keats
    “I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
    for their religion--
    I have shuddered at it,
    I shudder no more.
    I could be martyred for my religion.
    Love is my religion
    and I could die for that.
    I could die for you.
    My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: love, martyrdom, self-sacrifice
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    Lord Byron
    “In secret we met -
    In silence I grieve,
    That thy heart could forget,
    Thy spirit deceive.
    If I should meet thee
    After long years,
    How should I greet thee? -
    With silence and tears”
    ― Lord Byron
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    Lord Byron
    “The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
    ― Lord Byron
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    Lord Byron
    “Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.”
    ― Lord George Gordon Byron
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Alan Bennett
    “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
    tags: books
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    Thomas Mann
    “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
    tags: absurd, beauty, perverse, solitude
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
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    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    ― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
    tags: life, pain
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    R.A. Salvatore
    “It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
    ― R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: conscience, politics, right
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    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: friendship
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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