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    Frank McCourt
    “He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
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    Gore Vidal
    “The unfed mind devours itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Screening History
    tags: america, american-ts, americans, educated-voters, elections, hope, political-education, politics, vote
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, intelligence, wisdom
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    C.G. Jung
    “The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: classic-insult, humor, intelligence, people, stupidity
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    Cornell Woolrich
    “I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.”
    ― Cornell Woolrich, Blues of a Lifetime: The Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
    tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
    ― W.Somerset Maugham
    tags: character, friendship
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge
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    Francisco Cândido Xavier
    “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
    ― Chico Xavier
    tags: inspirational, life-lessons
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    Shirley Jackson
    “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
    tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity
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    Shirley Jackson
    “Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
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    Shirley Jackson
    “Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
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    Shirley Jackson
    “God! Whose hand was I holding?”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
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    Shirley Jackson
    “Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
    tags: books, ghosts
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    Raymond Chandler
    “A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The High Window
    tags: detective-fiction, dicks, noir-style, women
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    R.K. Narayan
    “Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.”
    ― R.K. Narayan, The Bachelor of Arts
    tags: friendship, illusion, love
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    Jennifer Egan
    “The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
    tags: music
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    Jennifer Egan
    “There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
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    Jennifer Egan
    “Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
    tags: p123
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    Jennifer Egan
    “When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
    tags: fashion, hairstyle
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    Adam Johnson
    “Even they couldn’t dream of a world in which citizens voluntarily carried tracking devices, conducted self-surveillance and reported on”
    ― Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles
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    Charles Dickens
    “There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.”
    ― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
    tags: charles-dickens, disease, victorian
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