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    Aaron Copland
    “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
    ― Aaron Copland
    tags: music
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: importance, kiss, kissing
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos
    tags: death, life
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “Happiness is a warm puppy.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
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    John Burroughs
    “The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
    ― John Burroughs
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: inspirational-humor
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    Isabel Allende
    “The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
    ― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts
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    Marjane Satrapi
    “To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.”
    ― Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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  • #11
    Don DeLillo
    “The future belongs to crowds.”
    ― Don DeLillo, Mao II
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
    tags: age-adult
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    Shelby Foote
    “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
    ― Shelby Foote
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    Chinua Achebe
    “While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”
    ― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
    tags: agape, brotherly-love, charity, compassion
    774 likes

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    Charles Dickens
    “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
    tags: communication, psychology
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    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    ― Henry Ward Beecherr
    tags: books, humor
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
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    Marjane Satrapi
    “In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”
    ― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
    tags: humor, memoir, young_adult
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  • #20
    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: books, feminist, reading
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    Anne Sexton
    “As it has been said:
    Love and a cough
    cannot be concealed.
    Even a small cough.
    Even a small love.”
    ― Anne Sexton
    tags: poetry
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    tags: memory
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    Louise Erdrich
    “We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace
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    John Berger
    “When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
    ― John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays
    tags: books, reading, stories, story
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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: love-in-the-time-of-cholera
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: kindness
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    William Shakespeare
    “Double, double, toil and trouble;
    Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    2013 likes



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