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#1

“He kisses like Elliott Smith sings.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

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#3

“I write poetry because I want to be alone and want to talk to people.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Cosmopolitan Greetings

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#4

“Mary Lou: Are you a seeker? A seeker after truth?

a beat.

Newt: I'm more of a chaser, really.”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

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#5

“No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.”
― P.T. Barnum

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#6

“The noblest art is that of making others happy”
― P.T. Barnum

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#7

“Be cautious and bold.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money

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#8

“And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware of what they're going through.

- Changes”
― David Bowie

tags: life, music, teenagers

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#9

“I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.”
― David Bowie

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#10

“All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author, There is no authoritative active voice. There are only multiple readings.”
― David Bowie

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#11

“On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.”
― David Bowie

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#12

“Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.”
― David Bowie

tags: inspirational, philosophical

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#13

“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
― Stephen King, It

tags: clown, eddie, fear, grownups, horror, it, monster, pennywise, stephen-king

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#14

“Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.”
― Stephen King, It

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#15

“Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.”
― Stephen King, It

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#16

“It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.”
― Stephen King, It

tags: personality

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#17

“Adults are the real monsters.”
― Stephen King, It

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#18

“He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts”
― Stephen King, It

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#19

“When I die, I guess I’ll go with a library card in one hand and an OVERDUE stamp in the other. Well, maybe there’s worse ways.”
― Stephen King, It

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#20

“I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.”
― Stephen King, It

tags: dreams, forget, remember

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#21

“Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out.”
― Stephen King, It

tags: home

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#22

“The kid in you just leaked out, like the air out of a tire. And one day you looked in the mirror and there was a grownup looking back at you.”
― Stephen King, It

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#23

“If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to him. He had no friends, but he had his books and his dreams...”
― Stephen King, It

tags: books, dreams, it, loneliness, lonely, quote, stephen-king

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#24

“George, I’m sorry!” he cried through his tears. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, please, I’m suh-suh-SORRY—” And then they were around him, his friends, and no one lit a match, and someone held him, he didn’t know who, Beverly maybe, or maybe Ben, or Richie. They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.”
― Stephen King, It

tags: friends, friendship

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#25

“Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. S.K.”
― Stephen King, It

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#26

“In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.”
― Stephen King, It

tags: dreams, nightmares, thinking, worst

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#27

“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being an adult is about learning how to die.”
― Stephen King, It

tags: death, life

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#28

“I’m back, Eddie! the asthma yelled gleefully. I’m back and oh, I dunno, this time I just might killya! Why not? Gotta do it sometime, you know! Can’t fuck around with you forever! Eddie’s chest surged and pulled. He groped for the aspirator, found it, pointed it down his throat, and pulled the trigger. Then he sat back in the tall Amtrak seat, shivering, waiting for relief, thinking of the dream from which he had just awakened.”
― Stephen King, It

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#29

“You’re probably wondering: why were Medusa’s kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa’s body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I’m just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you’re in the wrong universe”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

tags: fun, funny, greek, greek-heroes, medusa, percabeth, percy-jackson, percy-jackson-s-greek-heroes, pj, pjo, rick-riordan, universe

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#30

“Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I meant.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

tags: apollo, gods, hot, olympians, percy-jackson, sun, thalia

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#31

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: inspirational, life, meaning

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