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    Regina McBride
    “Buadhann an thoighde
    ar an gcinneamhain.”
    ― Regina McBride
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    George Harrison
    “If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
    ― George Harrison
    tags: life, paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll
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    Lewis Carroll
    “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: humor
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
    “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
    “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
    “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Love is the absence of judgment.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: inspiration
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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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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Hey Baby.
    Baby? You're kidding me, right?
    I was trying it out. No?
    No.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
    tags: endearment, nicknames, sobriquet
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Life is too short to learn German”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dread, hungarian-horntail, panic, relativity
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: inspirational
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    Gregory Maguire
    “Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Cornelia Funke
    “This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: books, friends
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    Shel Silverstein
    “My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but its silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
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    Oscar Wilde
    “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
    tags: family, food, thanksgiving
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    John Scalzi
    “Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.”
    ― John Scalzi
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    John Scalzi
    “The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat”
    ― John Scalzi, The Last Colony
    tags: humor, sci-fi
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    Kelley Armstrong
    “Simon: Anyone ever tell you your sense of timing really sucks?
    Derek: That's why I don't play the drums. Now what's up?”
    ― Kelley Armstrong, The Summoning
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    Kelley Armstrong
    “I'm behind you." I spun to see Derek. "I can't win," he said. "You're as skittish as a kitten.”
    ― Kelley Armstrong, The Summoning
    tags: chloe, derek
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    Kelley Armstrong
    “Oh, for God's sake. Save your piss. Don't save your piss. It's all the same to me.”
    ― Kelley Armstrong, The Summoning
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    Kelley Armstrong
    “Just stay still, if you stay still it can't find you. That's sharks, you idiot. Sharks and dinosaurs. This isn't Jurassic Park.”
    ― Kelley Armstrong, The Summoning
    tags: dinosaurs, humor, internal-thoughts, monsters-in-the-dark, sharks
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    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, politics
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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