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#1

“Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

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#2

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

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#3

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

tags: annoyance, writing

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#4

“He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

tags: boy, cool, girl, successful, try

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#5

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
― Ellen Goodman

tags: forgiveness, gratefulness, love

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#6

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: progress

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#7

“I'm drawn to people who look different. I'm not exploiting. I'm not making fun of them. I'm drawn to them.”
― Amy Sedaris

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#8

“Poof! It's magic!”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

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#9

“Humans, not places, make memories.”
― Ama Ata Aidoo

tags: memories

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#10

“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
― James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

tags: humor

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#11

“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
― Henry Fielding

tags: contentment, inner-peace

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#12

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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#13

“Do for yourself, for no one else will.”
― Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild

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#14

“The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.”
― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

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#15

“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

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#16

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

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#17

“Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.”
― Nasir-i Khusraw

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#18

“Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”
― Katherine Mansfield

tags: eyes, happiness, happy-people, holding-hands, love, short-story, smiling

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#19

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

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#20

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

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#21

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

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#22

“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

tags: heaven, love

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#23

“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

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#24

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

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#25

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

tags: family, humor, language, satire, simpsons, social-commentary

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#26

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology

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#27

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

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#28

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
― Sir Walter Scott

tags: education, homeschool

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#29

“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
― Vicki Baum, Ballerina

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#30

“The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.”
― Rangeya Raghav

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