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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”
    ― Che Guevarra
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    Neil Gaiman
    “As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. ”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Stephen King
    “I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: humor
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    Pablo Picasso
    “When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, confidence
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
    ― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
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    Pablo Picasso
    “You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    “Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.”
    ― George Halas
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    Maya Angelou
    “Nothing will work unless you do.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: enterprise, hard-work, inspirational, time
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
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    Confucius
    “If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”
    ― Confucius
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Bob Dylan
    “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
    ― Bob Dylan
    tags: bob-dylan, music, success
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    David Foster Wallace
    “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: books, infinite-jest
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    Don DeLillo
    “The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.”
    ― Don DeLillo, White Noise
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    Robert B. Parker
    “Yeah. Floyd is his batman."
    His what?"
    Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant."
    You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.”
    ― Robert B. Parker, Mortal Stakes
    tags: army, britain, detectives, education, humor, irrelevance, knowledge, money, reading, spenser
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    Harlan Coben
    “Man plans. God laughs.”
    ― Harlan Coben
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    Steven Pressfield
    “A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.”
    ― Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War
    tags: army, horse, humor
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    William Nicholson
    “Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Dashiell Hammett
    “The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”
    ― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
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    Dashiell Hammett
    “If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.”
    ― Dashiell Hammett
    tags: sex, writing
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    Dashiell Hammett
    “Who shot him? I asked.
    The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”
    ― Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest
    tags: stating-the-obvious
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: diplomacy, hurt, preparedness, presidential
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    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: music, philosophy, progress
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