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    P.D. James
    “If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.”
    ― P.D. James, The Children of Men
    tags: sex, sexuality
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    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    ― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
    tags: life, pain
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    Jean de La Bruyère
    “Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
    ― Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères
    tags: time
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: horror, irony
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: life
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
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    Audre Lorde
    “Your silence will not protect you.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    tags: protection, silence, speech
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: chess, daring, ideas
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    François Mauriac
    “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
    ― Francois Mauriac
    tags: books, literacy, reading
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  • #10
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Roald Dahl
    “Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The BFG
    tags: crazy, funny, words
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    Cesare Pavese
    “Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
    ― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
    tags: life, luxury
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    Ken Kesey
    “It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
    ― Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale
    tags: enlightenment, existence
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
    tags: curiosity
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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
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
    ― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims
    tags: love
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    Robert Benchley
    “The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”
    ― Robert Benchley, My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew
    tags: humor
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Do a loony-goony dance
    'Cross the kitchen floor,
    Put something silly in the world
    That ain't been there before.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic
    tags: dance, silly
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    T.S. Eliot
    “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
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    H.G. Wells
    “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
    tags: jealousy, morality
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    John Steinbeck
    “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
    tags: repression, strength
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
    tags: evil, judgement, right
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    Tennessee Williams
    “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
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    Jim Butcher
    “There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Death Masks
    tags: harry-dresden, life
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    Jim Butcher
    “In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
    tags: harry-dresden, heroism, humor
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    Jim Butcher
    “Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Storm Front
    tags: humor, women
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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  • #28
    Toni Morrison
    “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Beloved
    tags: freedom, self
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    Gore Vidal
    “The unfed mind devours itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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  • #30
    Frank Herbert
    “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: paradox
    2458 likes



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