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    Patrick W. Carr
    “Short questions with long answers, my boy.”
    ― Patrick W. Carr, The Hero's Lot
    tags: long, questions, short
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    William Shakespeare
    “Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: ferocity
    3895 likes

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    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: fear, life, science, understanding
    2859 likes

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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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    Mingmei Yip
    “I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder”
    ― Mingmei Yip, Peach Blossom Pavilion
    tags: china, coquettish, courtesan, decadence, funny, geisha, revenge
    24 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: funny
    5178 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
    51491 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
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    Jonas Jonasson
    “Life, here I come!' he said. And was immediately and fatally run over by a bus.”
    ― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden
    tags: destiny, fatality, irony, jonas-jonasson, life
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    Groucho Marx
    “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones
    tags: humor, obedience
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    Jonas Jonasson
    “People could behave how they liked, but Allan considered that in general it was quite unnecessary to be grumpy if you had the chance not to.”
    ― Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: invention, science
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
    7566 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109055 likes

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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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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
    39229 likes

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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
    22469 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
    21144 likes

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    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
    10274 likes

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    Roald Dahl
    “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: books
    125 likes

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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64552 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life
    2597 likes

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    Mae West
    “I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    2251 likes

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    Harvey Pekar
    “Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
    ― Harvey Pekar
    tags: life, writing
    2188 likes

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    Lemony Snicket
    “There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    2256 likes

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    Amy Tan
    “If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
    ― Amy Tan
    tags: life
    2110 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: classic-insult
    759 likes

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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
    940 likes

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    Sophocles
    “To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
    tags: brief, classic-insult, communication, concise, humor, insult, word-choice, writing
    31 likes



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