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  • #814
    Philip K. Dick
    “If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: humor, irony, optimism, pessimism, schizophrenia, universe
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  • #815
    Oscar Wilde
    “Irony is wasted on the stupid”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: irony, stupid, stupidity
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  • #816
    Moses Hadas
    “Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.”
    ― Moses Hadas
    tags: bad-reviews, books, classic-insult, irony, literary-criticism, time
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  • #817
    Steven Wright
    “I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.”
    ― Steven Wright
    tags: humor, irony, nobel-peace-prize
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  • #818
    Jim Butcher
    “Hell's bells, irony blows.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: harry-dresden, humor, irony
    153 likes

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  • #819
    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
    tags: irony, life, loneliness
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  • #820
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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  • #821
    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
    4179 likes

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  • #822
    Mortimer J. Adler
    “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
    tags: discipline, freedom
    1637 likes

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  • #823
    Khaled Hosseini
    “And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: earnestness, gullibility, honesty
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  • #824
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: man, men, woman, women
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  • #825
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: children
    1672 likes

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  • #826
    J.K. Rowling
    “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
    tags: magic
    2621 likes

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  • #827
    Terry Pratchett
    “Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Eric
    tags: erotic, kinky, suggestive
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  • #828
    Terry Pratchett
    “A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading
    1484 likes

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  • #829
    Terry Pratchett
    “The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
    tags: humor, life, movies
    1274 likes



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