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    Jane Austen
    “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: mr-darcy, pride-and-prejudice
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    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice
    tags: love, mr-darcy
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    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen
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    Malcolm Gladwell
    “Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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    Malcolm Gladwell
    “Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
    tags: intuition
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    Lynne Truss
    “To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.”
    ― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
    tags: apostrophe, humor, punctuation, writing
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    Lynne Truss
    “What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?”
    ― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
    tags: british-humor, english-language, grammar, humor, lynne-truss, punctuation, sentence-structure
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    Lynne Truss
    “There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.”
    ― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Margaret Atwood
    “We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
    We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: freedom, stories
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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought
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    George Orwell
    “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984, human, intellectual, mind, reality
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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    Tom Stoppard
    “For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    tags: metaphysics, time
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    Tom Stoppard
    “Uncertainty is the normal state.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    tags: existentialism
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    Tom Stoppard
    “Words, words. They're all we have to go on.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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    Franz Kafka
    “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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    Lynne Truss
    “Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.”
    ― Lynne Truss, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
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    Lynne Truss
    “The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.”
    ― Lynne Truss, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
    tags: political-correctness
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    Lynne Truss
    “If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.”
    ― Lynne Truss, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
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    Jane Austen
    “Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
    tags: agreement, compliments, discussion, disdain, intelligence, opposition, rationality, reason
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    Jane Austen
    “I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    William Golding
    “Sucks to your ass-mar!”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    Norton Juster
    “The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
    tags: journey, philosophy, quest
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    Norton Juster
    “So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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    Norton Juster
    “You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
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