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    “The circus is a jealous wench. Indeed that is an understatement. She is a ravening hag who sucks your vitality as a vampire drinks blood – who kills the brightest stars in her crown and will allow no private life for those who serve her; wrecking their homes, ruining their bodies, and destroying the happiness of their loved ones by her insatiable demands. She is all of these things, and yet, I love her as I love nothing else on earth.”
    ― Henry Ringling North, The Circus Kings: Our Ringling Family Story
    tags: circus
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
    tags: art, love
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art, inspirational
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
    tags: art, books
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    “We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.”
    ― Arne Tiselius
    tags: biochemist, biochemistry, blurred, critical-thinking, error, exploitation, facts, false, language, manipulation, manipulation-of-facts, nobel-laureate, pollution, science, superstition, truth, uncritical-minds, world
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    Aldous Huxley
    “His gravest offence had been to accept the world in which he found himself as normal, rational and right.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
    tags: credulity, naive, naivete, panglossian, positive, self-assured, self-serving, uncritical-minds
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    William Shakespeare
    “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: paraphrased, shakespeare
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    M.L. Rio
    “What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, 'is where the tragedy is.”
    ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
    tags: betrayal, if-we-were-villains, julius-caesar, m-l-rio, murder, shakespeare, tragedy
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    Emilie Autumn
    “Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.”
    ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
    tags: crazy, insane, mad, madness, shakespeare, william-shakespeare
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    Roger Zelazny
    “To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, Sign of the Unicorn
    tags: hindsight, humor, irony, shakespeare
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    Amy Harmon
    “Shakespeare said, 'the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.”
    ― Amy Harmon, Making Faces
    tags: shakespeare
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    William Shakespeare
    “Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,
    But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    tags: revenge, shakespeare, shylock
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    Pablo Picasso
    “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, creativity, imagination
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