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    James Fenimore Cooper
    “All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.”
    ― James Fenimore Cooper
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    George Orwell
    “The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.”
    ― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
    is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
    person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality
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    Francis Bacon
    “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: hope
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Mae West
    “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: decadence, fairy-tales, innuendo, purity, risque, snow-white, virginity
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    Henry G. Sheppard
    “Spelling and punctuation are completely irrelevant; unless you are hoping to be understood.”
    ― Henry G. Sheppard
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth
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  • #13
    “Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.”
    ― David Mamet
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  • #14
    “My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don’t have interesting characters and a good story to tell.”
    ― Harold Ramis
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    O. Henry
    “Write what you like; there is no other rule.”
    ― O. Henry
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: friendship, insincerity, manners
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Mothers are all slightly insane.”
    ― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: motherhood
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rule."

    Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it."

    Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right-I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game.”
    ― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: love
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    Lori L. Spencer
    “If you live each moment in heart, love, will fill your world. It cannot be seen, only felt and, is by far the greatest gift. So, dance as if no one is watching. Love, as if it were your last day. Be comfortably immersed in the stillness, so you can always be authentic. Smile and be kind. The world will unfold in presents that reach to touch the depth of other's souls. lls”
    ― Lori L. Spencer, 7 Best Kept Secrets to Painless Aging
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    William Gibson
    “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
    tags: first-lines
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    William Gibson
    “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
    ― William Gibson
    tags: future, planning
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  • #23
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    James Joyce
    “Kyrie ! The radiance of the intellect. I ought to profess Greek, the language of the mind.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses [Free Audio Links]
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    Miguel Ruiz
    “The Four Agreements
    1. Be impeccable with your word.
    2. Don’t take anything personally.
    3. Don’t make assumptions.
    4. Always do your best. ”
    ― don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
    tags: advice
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Thomas Wolfe
    “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
    ― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
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