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    Bobbie Ann Mason
    “One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
    ― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories
    tags: cats
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    Jenny Joseph
    “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.”
    ― Jenny Joseph, Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
    ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
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    Rafael Sabatini
    “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
    ― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
    tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines
    2128 likes

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    Hilary Mantel
    “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: book, books, fiction, read, reading, stories, story
    2121 likes

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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Gary Paulsen
    “If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
    The book needs you.”
    ― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room
    tags: books
    2580 likes

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    Phyllis Diller
    “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
    ― Phyllis Diller
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    Samuel Pepys
    “Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”
    ― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys
    tags: dinner
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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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    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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    James Herriot
    “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
    ― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories
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    Ashleigh Brilliant
    “My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
    ― Ashleigh Brilliant
    2590 likes

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    Will Rogers
    “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational
    3581 likes

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    Heinrich Heine
    “Where words leave off, music begins.”
    ― Heinrich Heine
    tags: music, power-of-music
    2848 likes

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    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
    8588 likes

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    Dale Carnegie
    “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
    ― Dale Carnegie
    1695 likes

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    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    ― Anne Tyler
    5584 likes

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    Christopher Paolini
    “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
    ― Christopher Paolini
    tags: books, reading
    3784 likes

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    Zadie Smith
    “The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
    ― Zadie Smith
    tags: future, grammar, language, past
    2868 likes

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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
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    Michael Crichton
    “I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
    ― Michael Crichton
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    Kathleen Winsor
    “Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
    ― Kathleen Winsor
    2099 likes

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    José Saramago
    “If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
    ― José Saramago, Blindness
    tags: regret, regrets, sincerity
    2278 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
    8038 likes

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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
    tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan
    3147 likes

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    Margaret Mead
    “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
    ― Margaret Mead
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  • #30
    “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
    ― Eleanor Hodgman Porter
    2606 likes



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