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  • #784
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: barbara-kingsolver, the-poisonwood-bible
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  • #785
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: change, forgiveness
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  • #786
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: learning
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  • #787
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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  • #788
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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  • #789
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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  • #790
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: inspirational
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  • #791
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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  • #792
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: fear
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  • #793
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: funny, humor, love, poisonwood-bible
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  • #794
    John Green
    “What the hell is that?" I laughed.
    "It's my fox hat."
    "Your fox hat?"
    "Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat."
    "Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked.
    "Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: funny, humor
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  • #795
    Jerry Seinfeld
    “If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”
    ― Jerry Seinfeld
    tags: books, funny
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  • #796
    Golda Meir
    “Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”
    ― Golda Meir
    tags: funny, golda, meir, true
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  • #797
    Bill Cosby
    “A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”
    ― Bill Cosby
    tags: funny
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  • #798
    Rachel Caine
    “Perv."
    He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?”
    ― Rachel Caine, Midnight Alley
    tags: funny, morganvillevampires
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  • #799
    Gena Showalter
    “What makes big boobs and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes.”
    ― Gena Showalter, Oh My Goth
    tags: funny, life
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  • #800
    Rodney Dangerfield
    “What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.”
    ― Rodney Dangerfield
    tags: funny, humour, infidelity, parenthood, parenting, sexuality
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  • #801
    Dante Alighieri
    “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: gates-of-hell, hell, latin, motto
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  • #802
    Dante Alighieri
    “The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: inferno-canto-vi-105
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  • #803
    Dante Alighieri
    “Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
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  • #804
    Dante Alighieri
    “The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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  • #805
    Bill Cosby
    “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ”
    ― Bill Cosby
    tags: success
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  • #806
    Bill Cosby
    “The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.”
    ― Bill Cosby
    tags: dream, future, ghost, past, present, time
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  • #807
    Bill Cosby
    “Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.”
    ― Bill Cosby
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  • #808
    Bill Cosby
    “Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”
    ― Bill Cosby
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  • #809
    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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  • #810
    Walt Disney Company
    “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
    ― Walt Disney Company, Mulan
    tags: inspiration, life
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  • #811
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
    tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea
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  • #812
    Alexander McCall Smith
    “It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.”
    ― Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls
    tags: happiness, irony, knowledge
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  • #813
    Michel de Montaigne
    “I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: expression, humor, irony, quoting, truth
    973 likes



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