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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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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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
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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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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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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    Margaret Atwood
    “There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”
    ― Margaret Atwood , Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
    tags: authors, disappointment, epigrams, fandom, on-writing, similes, writers
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    Diane Setterfield
    “I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.”
    ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
    tags: truth
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    Allan Heinberg
    “Billy: Oh, my God. I just walked out on the Avengers.
    Tommy: Why is that a bad thing? Earth's mightiest heroes are afraid of you. That's how powerful you are. By walking out, you probably earned their respect. Even I'm hating you a little less than usual.
    Billy: Thanks, Tommy. That means a lot.”
    ― Allan Heinberg, Avengers: The Children's Crusade
    tags: humor
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
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    Patti Smith
    “No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
    ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    ― Umberto Eco
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading
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  • #17
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: funny
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  • #18
    Johnny Cash
    “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
    ― Johnny Cash
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    Joe Klein
    “Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
    ― Joe Klein, Primary Colors
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    Marvin Bell
    “Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
    ― Marvin Bell
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    Walter Tevis
    “I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
    ― Walter Tevis
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery
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    Harper Lee
    “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: writing-advice
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    Richard Wright
    “The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
    ― Richard Wright
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  • #28
    “Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”
    ― Evelyn Lau, Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems
    tags: love
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  • #30
    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    ― J. D. Salinger
    tags: salinger, stories
    6598 likes



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