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    Ned Vizzini
    “I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
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    Jim Butcher
    “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
    ― Jim Butcher
    tags: family
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    Jodi Lynn Anderson
    “It turned out that my curiosity did not outweigh my courage after all. Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for.”
    ― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
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    Ned Vizzini
    “People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
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    Jodi Lynn Anderson
    “If you have reasons for not coming back, I don’t want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway. Ignorance, see?”
    ― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: faith, love, strength
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Jim Butcher
    “Are you always a smartass?'

    Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: humor, impudence, sarcasm, smartass
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    “As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.”
    ― Nic Sheff
    tags: ataraxy, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-worth
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    Jim Butcher
    “Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Changes
    tags: changes, drinking, harry-dresden, laughter, sanity, sanya
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    Jodi Lynn Anderson
    “Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.”
    ― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
    tags: jodi-lynn-anderson, tiger-lily, tinker-bell
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    Abigail Adams
    “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
    ― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
    tags: feminism
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    Jim Butcher
    “Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Vignette
    tags: evil, harry-dresden, stupidity
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    Jodi Lynn Anderson
    “Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.”
    ― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
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    Tom Waits
    “I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
    ― Tom Waits
    tags: music, power-of-music
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    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
    tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: expectation, hope, life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-heaven
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    Dylan Moran
    “You’re not really an adult at all. You’re just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation you don’t understand.”
    ― Dylan Moran
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    Ned Vizzini
    “See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
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    Ned Vizzini
    “Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
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    Ned Vizzini
    “Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: horror, irony
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
    tags: fear-of-unknown
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “incurable lover of the grotesque”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.”
    ― H. P. Lovercraft
    tags: herbert-west-reanimator
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Jarod Kintz
    “At Starbucks I like ordering a “Tall venti in a grande cup.” That’s basically me asking for a small large in a medium cup.
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    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
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