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    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: experience, failure, metaphor, success, wisdom
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    Truman Capote
    “It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.”
    ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
    tags: normal
    866 likes

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    Barbara Ehrenreich
    “Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.”
    ― Barbara Ehrenreich
    tags: feminism, gender, men, women, women-s-liberation
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    Barbara Ehrenreich
    “What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.”
    ― Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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    Barbara Ehrenreich
    “No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”
    ― Barbara Ehrenreich
    tags: activism, dissent, patriotism, protest, truth-telling
    136 likes

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    Malcolm Gladwell
    “Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
    tags: insight
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    Malcolm Gladwell
    “The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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    Malcolm Gladwell
    “We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
    tags: explanations
    660 likes

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    Phyllis Diller
    “Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance.”
    ― Phyllis Diller
    tags: humor
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: dumbledore, philosophy
    3565 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
    42404 likes

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    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Logan Pearsall Smith
    tags: life, reading
    3933 likes

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    Colson Whitehead
    “A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.”
    ― Colson Whitehead
    tags: monsters, people, pretense
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    Georgette Heyer
    “As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
    ― Georgette Heyer, Venetia
    tags: desires, promises
    1678 likes

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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
    13924 likes

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    Charles Darwin
    “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
    tags: arts, life, music, poetry
    2955 likes

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  • #17
    John Williams
    “To read without joy is stupid.”
    ― John Williams
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
    51601 likes

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    Jean Genet
    “Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
    ― Jean Genet
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  • #21
    “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
    ― Steven Kloves
    tags: movie-quote
    679 likes



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