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    Fredrik Backman
    “... it's always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is. Especially if you have other people you're trying to be a reasonable good human being for.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
    tags: anxious-people
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    Fredrik Backman
    “You can't live long with the ones who are only beautiful, Jules. But the funny ones, oh, they last a lifetime.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
    tags: love-quotes-and-sayings
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    Fredrik Backman
    “They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
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    Fredrik Backman
    “The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
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    Fredrik Backman
    “That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
    tags: literature, love, relationships
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    Fredrik Backman
    “Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it. She tried to be one of them. She told herself that was why you should always be nice to other people, even idiots, because you never know how heavy their burden is.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
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    Fredrik Backman
    “We don't have a plan, we just do our best to get through the day, because there'll be another one coming along tomorrow.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
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    Fredrik Backman
    “Nothing is easier for people who never do anything themselves than to criticize someone who actually makes an effort.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
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    Fredrik Backman
    “God doesn't protect people from knives, sweetheart. That's why God gave us other people, so we can protect each other.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
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    Fredrik Backman
    “But we weren't ready to become adults. Someone should have stopped us.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
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    Fredrik Backman
    “Because that was a parent’s job: to provide shoulders. Shoulders for your children to sit on when they’re little so they can see the world, then stand on when they get older so they can reach the clouds, and sometimes lean against whenever they stumble and feel unsure.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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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
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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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
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Sylvia Day
    “Sometimes yo can't go back." he muttered. "You just have to face the consequences and own your mistakes”
    ― Sylvia Day, Aftershock
    tags: romance
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    Sylvia Day
    “Life is short, Jax. Why spending time doing things that don't make you happy?”
    ― Sylvia Day, Aftershock
    tags: romance-novels-books
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    Sylvia Day
    “The solution to being with the wrong guy is to leave. There. Solved.”
    ― Sylvia Day, Aftershock
    tags: romance-book-quotes
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  • #30
    Colleen Hoover
    “Some fathers give you life. Some show you how to live it. Thank you for showing me how to live mine.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
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