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    Angela Carter
    “Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
    ― Angela Carter
    tags: books, reading
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    Mia Couto
    “Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
    ― Mia Couto
    tags: humanity, stories, storytelling
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Lewis Carroll
    “The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, carpenter, poem, walrus, walrus-and-the-carpenter
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
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  • #8
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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  • #9
    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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  • #11
    John Lennon
    “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
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  • #12
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Harper Lee
    “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: atticus-finch, courage
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    Harper Lee
    “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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    Harper Lee
    “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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    Harper Lee
    “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, people, scout
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    Harper Lee
    “People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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    Harper Lee
    “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: modern-classic
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    Harper Lee
    “When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: wisdom
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    Harper Lee
    “Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: character, courage, inspirational, moral-courage, perseverance, tenacity
    1583 likes

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  • #21
    Harper Lee
    “You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.
    -Atticus Finch”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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  • #22
    Harper Lee
    “Things are always better in the morning.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: optimism, renewal
    727 likes

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  • #23
    Harper Lee
    “It's not time to worry yet”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: worry
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  • #24
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Do anything, save to lie down and die!”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: courage, just-do-it, live-life
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    Ray A. Davis
    “A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.”
    ― Ray A. Davis
    tags: challenges, inspiration, motivation, overcoming
    116 likes

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  • #26
    Patrick Ness
    “Belief is half of healing.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: a-monster-calls, belief, healing, inspiration, patrick-ness
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    Patrick Ness
    “I did not come to heal her, the monster said. I came to heal you.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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  • #28
    Sara Gruen
    “In seventy years, I’ve never told a blessed soul.”
    ― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
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    Sara Gruen
    “Age is a terrible thief. Just when you’re getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse. Metastatic,”
    ― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
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  • #30
    Sara Gruen
    “Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work but important.”
    ― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
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