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    John Green
    “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
    ― John Green
    tags: humor, nerdfighters
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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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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    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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    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: christianity, god, religion
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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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 Manson
    “Music is the strongest form of magic.”
    ― Marilyn Manson
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    Marilyn Manson
    “We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”
    ― Marilyn Manson
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    Marilyn Manson
    “Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”
    ― Marilyn Manson
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?"
    "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are."
    "What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?"
    "Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: clary-fray, jace-wayland, joke, mummies, sarcasm, vampire, werewolf, zombies
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    Seth Grahame-Smith
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”
    ― Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
    tags: paraphrased, zombies
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    Max Brooks
    “Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.”
    ― Max Brooks, Zombie Survival Guide, The: Complete Protection From The Living Dead
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: books, philosophy
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    Marie de France
    “Whoever has received knowledge
    and eloquence in speech from God
    should not be silent or secretive
    but demonstrate it willingly.
    When a great good is widely heard of,
    then, and only then, does it bloom,
    and when that good is praised by man,
    it has spread its blossoms.”
    ― Marie de France
    tags: knowledge, medieval, women, writing
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    Homer
    “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: heart, homer, the-iliad
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    tags: inspirational, life-happiness
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    tags: on-writing, reading, writing
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: love
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: heart, love, marriage, passion
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    Alvin Toffler
    “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
    ― Alvin Toffler
    tags: futuristic
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    Plutarch
    “The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.”
    ― Plutarch
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: death, love
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: women
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: achievement, beauty, clichés, distinction, empowerment, gender, gentleness, greatness, history, intelligence, self-determination, stereotypes, women
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