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    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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    Lorraine Hansberry
    “The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Of course not," said Sturmhond. "Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
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    William Strunk Jr.
    “Omit needless words.”
    ― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly
    tags: writing-words
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    Wole Soyinka
    “The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
    ― Wole Soyinka
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    Tony Kushner
    “In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
    ― Tony Kushner, Perestroika
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    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    ― A.J. Cronin
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    Arthur Golden
    “The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: death, hope
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    Arthur Golden
    “Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: dreams
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    Arthur Golden
    “If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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    Arthur Golden
    “If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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    Arthur Golden
    “A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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    Arthur Golden
    “It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: geisha, memoirs
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    Arthur Golden
    “Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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    Arthur Golden
    “I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: misery, sadness
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Thor Heyerdahl
    “Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
    ― Thor Heyerdahl
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    Fannie Flagg
    “Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
    ― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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    Kay Ryan
    “It isn't ever delicate to live.”
    ― Kay Ryan
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    Nathanael West
    “Numbers constitute the only universal language.”
    ― Nathanael West
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
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    Doris Lessing
    “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
    ― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
    tags: inspirational
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  • #28
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: funny
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    My course is set for an uncharted sea.
    “My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
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    W.C. Fields
    “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
    ― W.C. Fields
    tags: labels, names
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