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Warsan Shire has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in…
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It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find…
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At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been…
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I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m…
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Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you…
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Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace…
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I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is…
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Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a…
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I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.
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There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
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Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want…
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Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.
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He aint in your world you can take em off your atlas
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
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I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing…
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Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and…
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Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the…
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I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
— Clarence Thomas
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Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.
— Nancy Mairs
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An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal…
— Murray Rothbard
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On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to…
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On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to…
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I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
— Ken Jennings
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There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a…
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