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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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tags fiction, life, people

“All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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tags fiction, life, people, society

“This isn’t about what is, it’s about what people think is. It’s all imaginary anyway. That’s why it’s important. People only fight over imaginary things.”

-Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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tags fiction, people, society

“People imagine, and people believe: and it is belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.”

-Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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tags belief, faith, people

“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags creativity, ideas, people

“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags people, perception, society

“She was very clever. She told the best lie of all – the truth.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags people, short, truth

“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags belief, choice, people, perception, short

“I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

-Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
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tags love, people

“Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?”

-Stephen King, The Gunslinger
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tags people, short, time

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”

-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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tags inspirational, people

“One touches and, in the act of touching, one’s touched.”

-Aldous Huxley, Island
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tags happiness, people, short

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’ Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
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tags iconic, intelligence, nature, people, uncertainty

“There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
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tags love, people

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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tags life, people, perception

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”

-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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tags dreams, inspirational, life, people

“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”

-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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tags good, inspirational, people

“It’s funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”

-Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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tags people, perception

“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don’t deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.”

-Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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tags failure, good, inspirational, people, perspective

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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tags people, short

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

-Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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tags humor, iconic, opening line

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