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    Fredrik Backman
    “Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
    tags: complicated, details, elsa, explain, explanation, secret
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    Fredrik Backman
    “Because if a sufficient number of people are different, no one has to be normal.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
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    Fredrik Backman
    “One day at a time. One dream at a time. And one could say it’s right and one could say it’s wrong. And probably both would be right. Because life is both complicated and simple. Which is why there are cookies.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant
    tags: middle-grade
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    “Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.”
    ― Sheridan Hay, The Secret of Lost Things
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  • #10
    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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    Kate DiCamillo
    “How will the world change if we do not question it?”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant
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  • #14
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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  • #21
    Kate DiCamillo
    “Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant
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  • #31
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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  • #35
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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  • #38
    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
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  • #39
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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  • #40
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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  • #42
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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  • #44
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
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    Jostein Gaarder
    “A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery
    tags: difference, joker, loneliness, stranger
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  • #46
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: power-of-words
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  • #48
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #50
    “...to be free is often to be lonely”
    ― Sheridan Hay, The Secret of Lost Things
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  • #51
    Jostein Gaarder
    “How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery
    tags: life, living
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  • #52
    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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  • #52
    “nothing is ever what you imagine, is it?”
    ― Sheridan Hay, The Secret of Lost Things
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  • #53
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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  • #54
    José Eduardo Agualusa
    “Nothing seems true that cannot also seem false.”
    ― José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons
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  • #55
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    ― Henry Ward Beecherr
    tags: books, humor
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  • #55
    José Eduardo Agualusa
    “Truth is superstition.”
    ― José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons
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  • #57
    José Eduardo Agualusa
    “Happiness is almost always irresponsible.”
    ― José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons
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