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#1

“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
― Salvador Dali

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#2

“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”
― Salvador Dalí

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#3

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

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#4

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

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#5

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

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#6

“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!”
― Salvador Dali

tags: insanity, sanity

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#7

“I am not strange. I am just not normal.”
― Salvador Dalí

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#8

“So little of what could happen does happen.”
― Salvador Dalí

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#9

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
― Salvador Dalí

tags: art

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#10

“Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.”
― Salvador Dali

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#11

“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.”
― Salvador Dalí

tags: art, dali, modern, salvador, tragedy

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#12

“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”
― Salvador Dali

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#13

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

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#14

“Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.”
― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage

tags: everyone, humor, scholar

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#15

“If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.”
― Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Choice

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#16

“I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.”
― Tamora Pierce

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#17

“Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?”
― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

tags: humour, stereotypes

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#18

“The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

tags: bravery, daja, fear, friends, sandry

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#19

“Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.”
― Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

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#20

“Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.”
― Tamora Pierce

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#21

“It's not just children who need heroes.”
― Tamora Pierce

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#22

“There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki”
― Tamora Pierce, Squire

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#23

“Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.”
― Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic

tags: animals, promises

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#24

“He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

tags: humor, stupidity

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#25

“Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.”
― Tamora Pierce

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#26

“My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!”
― Tamora Pierce, Squire

tags: alanna-of-pirates-swoop, keladry-of-mindelan, nealan, squire

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#27

“Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know."
Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?”
― Tamora Pierce, Street Magic

tags: briar, man, men, rosethorn

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#28

“You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

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#29

“You mortals are like fish
swimming in a globe of glass.
That globe is your world.
You do not see beyond it.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

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#30

“Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.”
― Tamora Pierce, Squire

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