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    “Hello, Alan." said Carol's dad Keith.
    "Hello, Alan." said Carol's mum, Stella, not bothering to think of a greeting of her own.”
    ― Alan Partridge, I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: children-s-lit, favorites, humor
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    “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
    ― Sid Ziff
    tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit
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    Terry Goodkind
    “People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule
    tags: public-opinion, willful-ignorance, wizard-s-rules
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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    Charles Dickens
    “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: giving, helping-others
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    Lisa See
    “When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.”
    ― Lisa See, Shanghai Girls
    tags: inspirational
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
    tags: prejudice, understanding
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    Victor Hugo
    “England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: bible, england, shakespeare
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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
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    70008 likes

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    Lewis Carroll
    “Off with their heads!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Terry Goodkind
    “Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation
    tags: charity
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    Victor Hugo
    “Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
    ― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables
    tags: inspirational
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    Jane Austen
    “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Arthur Golden
    “I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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    Arthur Golden
    “At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: death, loss
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    ― George S. Patton
    tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And I fell violently on my face.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Great Tales and Poems
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: college, semicolons, writing
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Jane Austen
    “Badly done, Emma!”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
    tags: mr-knightley
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    William Shakespeare
    “You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    tags: insults, shakespeare
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  • #25
    William Shakespeare
    “What's done cannot be undone.”
    ― William Shakespeare , Macbeth
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  • #26
    Noël Coward
    “I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”
    ― Noel Coward
    tags: annoyance, walking
    215 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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    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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    Confucius
    “He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: wisdom
    2666 likes



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