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She had brillant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun all together.

Kiera Cass

Hair, Rose, Beautiful Girl

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And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.

Kiersten White

Love, Romantic, Reality

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... no matter how nice you are to some people, they'll turn their back on you the second they get the chance.

Jeff Kinney

Nice, People, Matter

Jeff Kinney (2013). “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck”, p.88, Abrams

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I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Would Be, Pace, Able

Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.211, A&C Black

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To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Michael Korda

Motivational, Positive, Success

"Success!" by Michael Korda, (p. 284), 1977.

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

Mark Twain

Funny, Death, Real

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

Aldous Huxley

Funny, Sarcastic, Laughter

"Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 239), 1979.

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All gods are better than their reputation.

Mark Twain

God, Reputation, Funny Religious

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The funniest things are the forbidden.

Mark Twain

Funny, Humorous, Forbidden Things

Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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I am not young enough to know everything.

James M. Barrie

Book, Athlete, Knowledge

The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

Ayn Rand

Love, Life, Thinking

Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.95, Penguin

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Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

Paula Gunn Allen

Inspirational, Life, Peace

Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)

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Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

William Gibson

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

Louise Erdrich

Love, Life, Strength

"The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Mark Twain

Funny, Truth, Real

Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.339, Univ of California Press

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All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

Mark Twain

Funny, Music, Truth

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That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.

P. C. Hodgell

Faith, Clever, Truth

P.C. Hodgell (2014). “The Sea of Time”, p.107, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

John Green

Book, Reading, Understanding

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You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Agatha Christie

Love, Birthday, Family

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Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

August Strindberg

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.

Tawni O'Dell

Inspirational, Success, Dream

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The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

Brendan Behan

Peace, War, Bombs

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