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    Stephen King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: dreams, life
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    Cassandra Clare
    “As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
    tags: coffee, humor, optimism, solace
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Black as night, sweet as sin.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
    tags: anansi, boys, coffee
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thud!
    tags: coffee, humor
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    Justina Chen
    “Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.”
    ― Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful
    tags: coffee
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    Leanna Renee Hieber
    “Coffee first. Schemes later.”
    ― Leanna Renee Hieber, Darker Still
    tags: coffee, natalia-stewart
    174 likes

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    Justina Chen
    “Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?”
    ― Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful
    tags: coffee, jacob, joy-of-life, justina-chen-headley, north-of-beautiful
    155 likes

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    Barbara Crooker
    “I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better. I like my heroes complicated and brooding, James Dean in oiled leather, leaning on a motorcycle. You know the color. ("Ode to Chocolate")”
    ― Barbara Crooker, More
    tags: beer, coffee, heroes, wine
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    Marcia Carrington
    “A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray.”
    ― Marcia Carrington
    tags: coffee, habits, human-nature, humor, morning
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    Orson Welles
    “There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women...”
    ― Orson Welles
    tags: coffee, orson-welles
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    Abigail Reynolds
    “I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.”
    ― Abigail Reynolds, Pemberley by the Sea
    tags: coffee, literature
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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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
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
    35634 likes

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    Franz Kafka
    “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Samuel Beckett
    “I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Endgame
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  • #22
    Elbert Hubbard
    “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: faith, god, wisdom
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    Paulo Coelho
    “A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
    tags: prayer, ritual
    62 likes

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    Jo Nesbø
    “Doubt is faith's shadow.”
    ― Jo Nesbo, The Redeemer
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    Jo Nesbø
    “If you are unable to feel fear, you cannot be courageous.”
    ― Jo Nesbø, The Redeemer
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    William Shakespeare
    “As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: may-day-quotes
    49 likes

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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I like coffee exceedingly...”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: coffee, lovecraft
    120 likes

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  • #28
    Max Brooks
    “Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”
    ― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    tags: human-nature, scepticism, weakness, zombie
    489 likes

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    Georges Simenon
    “Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.”
    ― Georges Simenon
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  • #30
    Georges Simenon
    “We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.”
    ― Georges Simenon
    70 likes



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