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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window
    tags: humor-cats-allergies
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  • #3
    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
    33868 likes

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  • #4
    Mark Strand
    “Each moment is a place
    you've never been.”
    ― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems
    1683 likes

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  • #5
    Anthony Trollope
    “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
    ― Anthony Trollope
    tags: writing
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  • #6
    Katherine Anne Porter
    “The past is never where you think you left it.”
    ― Katherine Anne Porter
    tags: past
    2607 likes

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  • #7
    James Joyce
    “Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
    tags: james-joyce, ulysses
    2400 likes

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  • #8
    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
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  • #9
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
    tags: travel
    2974 likes

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  • #10
    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
    177065 likes

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  • #11
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #12
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92183 likes

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  • #14
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81812 likes

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  • #16
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
    43664 likes

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  • #17
    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
    35272 likes

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  • #18
    Daniel Defoe
    “It is never too late to be wise.”
    ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
    2858 likes

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  • #19
    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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  • #20
    Terry Pratchett
    “I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
    Death thought about it.
    CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
    tags: cats, death, life
    3630 likes

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  • #21
    Hermann Hesse
    “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
    ― Herman Hesse
    tags: steppenwolf
    4618 likes

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  • #22
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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  • #23
    “You probably don’t want to change the meaning of true halfway through your program (except perhaps if you’re a politician).”
    ― Dave Thomas, Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0
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  • #24
    “Nie zgubił się oczywiście, bo koty nigdy się nie gubią. Po prostu nie wiedział, gdzie jest wszystko pozostałe.”
    ― Anonymous
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  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
    2476 likes

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  • #26
    Douglas Adams
    “So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die."
    "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried.
    "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round.
    "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: gallows-humor, humor, science
    1419 likes

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  • #27
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you desire healing,
    let yourself fall ill
    let yourself fall ill.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: denial, depression, healing, pain, recovery, sadness, suffering
    776 likes

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  • #28
    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    ― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues
    tags: morning, waking-up
    2793 likes



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