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    Ray Bradbury
    “But no man's a hero to himself.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
    tags: heroes, inspirations
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
    tags: death, ends, loss, the-end, understanding
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    Stephen King
    “Ka was like a wheel, its one purpose to turn, and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started.”
    ― Stephen King, The Waste Lands
    tags: ka
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    Stephen King
    “Don't ask me silly questions
    I won't play silly games
    I'm just a simple choo choo train
    And I'll always be the same.

    I only want to race along
    Beneath the bright blue sky
    And be a happy choo choo train
    Until the day I die.”
    ― Stephen King, The Waste Lands
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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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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    Nicola Griffith
    “Dogs own space and cats own time.”
    ― Nicola Griffith, Hild
    tags: behavior, cats, dogs
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  • #8
    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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    Janet Fitch
    “Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: inspirational, janet-fitch, white-oleander
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    Janet Fitch
    “That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
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  • #11
    The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in
    “The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: security
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: fate, humor, simile
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light
    through whom is splintered from a single White
    to many hues, and endlessly combined
    in living shapes that move from mind to mind.
    Though all the crannies of the world we filled
    with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build
    Gods and their houses out of dark and light,
    and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right
    (used or misused). The right has not decayed.
    We make still by the law in which we're made.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, Tree and Leaf; Smith of Wootton Major; The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
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    Walt Whitman
    “Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
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    Terry Pratchett
    “People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: humor, librarians, libraries
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    Terry Pratchett
    “She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?'
    'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
    tags: grief, loss, magic, witchcraft
    438 likes

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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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    Richard Ayoade
    “I don't know that I brood. I just occasionally take time out to silently consider the specific ways in which others have wronged me.”
    ― Richard Ayoade, Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey
    tags: brooding, silence
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    Richard Ayoade
    “I've found out that I may be more awkward than I thought I was, but then I never saw anyone because I was in my room a lot. It's fine not to speak when you're on your own and to stammer and to not have eye contact but, outside, it's frowned upon.”
    ― Richard Ayoade
    tags: anxiety, awkwardness, social-anxiety
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  • #20
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
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    Emily Brontë
    “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
    ― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights
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    Richard Ayoade
    “I have all these things that I want to say to her, like... Like how I can tell she's a lonely person, even if other people can't. Cause I know what it feels like to be lost and lonely and invisible.”
    ― Richard Ayoade, The Double
    tags: invisible, loneliness, lost
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    Noel Fielding
    “oh you know........ not brilliant”
    ― Noel Fielding
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    Emily Brontë
    “I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: dreams
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    Noel Fielding
    “I don't pick stuff up I knock stuff down!”
    ― Noel Fielding
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    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: change, human
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  • #28
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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  • #29
    Stephen King
    “Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.”
    ― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
    tags: immortality, laughter
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  • #30
    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
    3105 likes



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