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  • #1
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Sophocles
    “One word
    Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
    That word is love.”
    ― Sophocles
    tags: love, pain
    2999 likes

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  • #3
    Jennifer Egan
    “Time's a goon right?You gonna let that goon push you around?”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
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    Garth Ennis
    “An' you turn your back on your friend, you may as well go ahead an' join the asshole squad, 'cause you just became one more reason why the damn world's gone to hell.”
    ― Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
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  • #5
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
    12071 likes

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  • #6
    Laura Esquivel
    “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
    ― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
    tags: fire, love, lust, matches
    2036 likes

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  • #7
    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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  • #8
    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: life, living, philosophy, women
    4924 likes

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  • #9
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: defend
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  • #10
    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
    130140 likes

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  • #11
    William Blake
    “If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: love
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  • #12
    William Shakespeare
    “Double, double, toil and trouble;
    Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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  • #13
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Jules Verne
    “We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
    ― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
    tags: books, reading
    2137 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
    15762 likes

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  • #16
    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
    37984 likes

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  • #17
    Philip Roth
    “Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
    ― Philip Roth
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  • #18
    Margaret Atwood
    “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg
    tags: nature, spring
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
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  • #20
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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  • #21
    William Golding
    “My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
    ― William Golding
    tags: past, yesterday
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  • #22
    Thomas Babington Macaulay
    “What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
    ― Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay
    tags: books, reading
    2689 likes

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  • #23
    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    ― A.J. Cronin
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  • #24
    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
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  • #25
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
    8072 likes

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  • #26
    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    ― August Wilson
    tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength
    4210 likes

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  • #27
    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    ― Amy Bloom
    tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance
    4448 likes

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  • #28
    Brian K. Vaughan
    “Never worry what other people think of you, because no one ever thinks of you.”
    ― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 2
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  • #29
    “However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.”
    ― amy poehler, Yes Please
    tags: funny
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  • #30
    “Telling me to relax or smile when I’m angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You’re just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.”
    ― Amy Poehler, Yes Please
    220 likes



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