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    Douglas Preston
    “We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
    ― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence
    tags: evil, monster
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    Caitlín R. Kiernan
    “Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.”
    ― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl
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    Carol Shields
    “Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
    ― Carol Shields
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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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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
    1655 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, imagination
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    Albert Einstein
    “You never fail until you stop trying.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: inspirational
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    Albert Einstein
    “Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Maya Angelou
    “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: literature, reading, self-discovery, youth
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    Tacitus
    “They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.”
    ― Tacitus, The Agricola and The Germania
    tags: deserts, peace
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  • #14
    “trying is the first step toward failure”
    ― Homer Simpson
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    Adelise M. Cullens
    “Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.”
    ― Adelise M. Cullens, Dead Bunnies Make All Eight Of Me Cry
    tags: book, book-love, book-lovers, book-quotes, books, books-reading, bookstore, bookstores, bookworm, love, reading, reality
    47 likes

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    Robert McCammon
    “Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.”
    ― Robert R. McCammon, Boy's Life
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    Mary Doria Russell
    “Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk too much? You could call it On and On Anon.”
    ― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
    tags: anon, funny, humor
    11 likes

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    Matthew Reilly
    “There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.”
    ― Matthew Reilly, Area 7
    tags: writing
    157 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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    Alan Moore
    “People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: democracy, equality, government, misattributed
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    Larry Correia
    “If we lived through this, I was going to find out why Grant had turned snitch and then I was going to beat him to death.”
    ― Larry Correia, Monster Hunter Vendetta
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    Charles Bukowski
    “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Bad writers tend to have self-confidence, while the good ones tend to have self-doubt.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: writing
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    Graeme Rodaughan
    “The man who walks in the shadow of vengeance is a different man from the man who walks in the light of justice.”
    ― Graeme Rodaughan, A Subtle Agency
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    “There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all”
    ― Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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    Graeme Rodaughan
    “Never give up on your friends. Never give up your faith in them. It's when everything is worse than you could ever imagine it could be, that you'll need your friends the most.”
    ― Graeme Rodaughan, The Dragon's Den
    tags: faith, friendship, perseverance
    216 likes

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    Graeme Rodaughan
    “The oppression we all face is guarded by what we are unwilling to question.”
    ― Graeme Rodaughan, The Dragon's Den
    tags: liberty, oppression, self-awareness
    74 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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  • #30
    Anna Faversham
    “I'm glad it's not given to me to pass judgment on a soul.”
    ― Anna Faversham, One Dark Soul
    tags: karl-says-to-daniel
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