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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135508 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151410 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127110 likes

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  • #5
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109283 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81812 likes

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  • #7
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
    74332 likes

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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
    148398 likes

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  • #9
    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
    35271 likes

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  • #10
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
    22511 likes

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  • #11
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
    19849 likes

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  • #12
    George Carlin
    “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: funny, humanity, humor
    8863 likes

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  • #13
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: funny
    6897 likes

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  • #14
    George Carlin
    “That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
    ― George Carlin
    3743 likes

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  • #15
    Stan Lee
    “With great power comes great responsibility.”
    ― Stan Lee
    tags: comics, inspirational, marvel, marvel-comics, stan-lee
    467 likes

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  • #16
    Stan Lee
    “Nuff said!”
    ― Stan Lee
    tags: comics, inspirational, marvel, marvel-comics, stan-lee
    91 likes

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  • #17
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.”
    ― Chuck Palahnuik
    tags: fight-club
    86 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
    11722 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
    390 likes

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  • #20
    Juan Ramón Jiménez
    “If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
    ― Juan Ramón Jiménez, Invisible Reality
    tags: epigraph, fahrenheit-451, nonconformity, protest, ray-bradbury
    381 likes

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  • #21
    Ray Bradbury
    “You fail only if you stop writing.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    141 likes

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  • #22
    Ray Bradbury
    “Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: short-stories, writing
    203 likes



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