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    Jim Harrison
    “Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.”
    ― Jim Harrison, After Ikkyu & Other Poems
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
    tags: peace, war
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor
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    Jim Butcher
    “I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Cold Days
    tags: cold-days, harry-dresden, terry-pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
    tags: dark-humor, funny, reaper-man, unseen-university, vetinari
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational-faith
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    Tennessee Williams
    “The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer
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    Dan Brown
    “As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!”
    ― Dan Brown, The da Vinci Code
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people,”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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    Laurie Colwin
    “To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.”
    ― Laurie Colwin
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: pride, reading, writers
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: two-english-poems
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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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
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
    23425 likes



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