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    George R.R. Martin
    “It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: intelligence, kindlehighlight, wisdom
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
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    George R.R. Martin
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: human-nature, people, truth
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    George R.R. Martin
    “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: friendship, loneliness
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    George R.R. Martin
    “And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Clement Clarke Moore
    “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
    ― Clement Clarke Moore, Twas the Night Before Christmas
    tags: christmas-quotes
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    Becky Albertalli
    “Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.”
    ― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
    tags: glbt, simon-spier
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    Becky Albertalli
    “White shouldn't be the default any more than straight should be the default. There shouldn't even be a default.”
    ― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
    tags: glbt
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  • #10
    Robinson Jeffers
    “The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth”
    ― Robinson Jeffers
    tags: age, beauty, youth
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  • #11
    Emery Lord
    “In friendship we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.”
    ― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You
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    Emery Lord
    “My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.”
    ― Emery Lord, When We Collided
    tags: dark-days, inner-strength, mental-illness, strength
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    Jeremy Scott
    “Know-it-alls are always skeptical of new information because they operate on the assumption that there is no information that is new to them.”
    ― Jeremy Scott, The Ables
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle
    tags: beauty, poetry, rhythm
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    James Frey
    “Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work. ”
    ― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
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  • #17
    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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    Paul Auster
    “When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
    ― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
    tags: holmes, laziness, london, watson
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • #21
    George R.R. Martin
    “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: game-of-thrones, george-r-r-martin, song-of-ice-and-fire, tyrion-lannister
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    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
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  • #23
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Perry Anderson
    “Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.”
    ― Perry Anderson, Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas
    tags: accuracy, banality, falsity, ideas, intellectuals, morals, truth
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  • #25
    Franz Kafka
    “Books are a narcotic.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books
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    K.S. Villoso
    “Betrayal has a funny way of turning your world upside-down. As familiar as I had already been with it by that point, it still amazed me how far I could stretch that moment of denial. The thought of what had been—of what could yet be—persisted. Perhaps it is not the same for most people. Perhaps, when you love less, it is easier not to let the emptiness become a cavern from which you could no longer see the sun.”
    ― K.S. Villoso, The Wolf of Oren-Yaro
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  • #27
    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    Philip K. Dick
    “The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
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  • #30
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Emperor's Soul
    tags: heart, insult, secret, women
    54 likes



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