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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “So it goes.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
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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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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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    Gregory Colbert
    “The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.”
    ― Gregory Colbert
    tags: inspiration
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: humour
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: marriage-proposal
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  • #9
    Leonard Cohen
    “You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “The covers of this book are too far apart.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, criticism, humor, wit
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce
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  • #12
    Charles Bukowski
    “You have to die a few times before you can really
    live.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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  • #13
    Graham Parke
    “I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.”
    ― Graham Parke, Unspent Time
    tags: humor, philosophy, weird
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: books, favorite-books
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    Federico Fellini
    “All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
    ― Federico Fellini
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    Neil Gaiman
    “It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: fallibility, humor
    2429 likes

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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
    tags: answers, plausibility, wrong
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
    tags: britain, englishmen, knighthood
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    Salman Rushdie
    “Man is the Storytelling Animal, and that in stories are his identity, his meaning, and his lifeblood.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, Luka and the Fire of Life
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: vulnerability
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    Natalie Babbitt
    “Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
    ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
    tags: elegance, philosophy, simplicity
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
    tags: dragons, wonder
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu
    tags: men, power, women
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    Ann Leckie
    “Luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience.”
    ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
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    Ann Leckie
    “...it’s so easy, isn’t it, to decide the people you’re fighting aren’t really human. Or maybe you have to do it, to be able to kill them.”
    ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
    tags: the-other, war
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    Ann Leckie
    “Surely it isn’t illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.”
    ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
    tags: complain, young-people
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    Stephen King
    “High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.”
    ― Stephen King, Carrie
    tags: high-school
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    Stephen King
    “People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”
    ― Stephen King, Carrie
    tags: carrie, changing, king, learning, stephen
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fantasy, fear, kvothe, man-s, name, patrick-rothfuss, wind, wise
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
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