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    Sylvia Plath
    “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: friendship, humor, shared-ordeal
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    Lorraine Hansberry
    “The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
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    John Muir
    “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: inspirational
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
    ― Richard Feynmann
    tags: curiosity, learning, scholarship
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
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    Douglas Adams
    “A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: life
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    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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    Douglas Adams
    “For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: today
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
    ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: business, love
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    Margaret Atwood
    “There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
    tags: dogma, extremism, fanaticism, god, inhumanity, justification, religion
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    Margaret Atwood
    “How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle
    tags: humor, love, relationships
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    Walt Whitman
    “We were together. I forget the rest.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: cute, euphoria, nostalgic
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    Walt Whitman
    “Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, positive-attitude
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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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    Harper Lee
    “People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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    Charles Portis
    “But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?”
    ― Charles Portis, True Grit
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    Iain Banks
    “One should never mistake pattern for meaning.”
    ― Iain Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: life, living, philosophy, women
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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
    tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset
    5314 likes

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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
    62276 likes



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