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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/32357-dreams-do-come-true-if-only-we-wish-hard-enough</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:44:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by J.M. Barrie]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it." -- J.M. Barrie]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/13733-for-those-who-believe-in-god-most-of-the-big</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:44:58 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Charles Bukowski]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/13733-for-those-who-believe-in-god-most-of-the-big]]>
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	    <![CDATA["For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." -- Charles Bukowski]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/504224-we-would-be-together-and-have-our-books-and-at</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:50:37 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Ernest Hemingway]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/504224-we-would-be-together-and-have-our-books-and-at]]>
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	    <![CDATA["we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright." -- Ernest Hemingway]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/278644-i-will-remember-the-kisses-our-lips-raw-with-love</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:51:19 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Charles Bukowski]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I will remember the kisses 
our lips raw with love 
and how you gave me 
everything you had 
and how I 
offered you what was left of 
me, 
and I will remember your small room 
the feel of you 
the light in the window 
your records 
your books 
our morning coffee 
our noons our nights 
our bodies spilled together 
sleeping 
the tiny flowing currents 
immediate and forever 
your leg my leg 
your arm my arm 
your smile and the warmth 
of you 
who made me laugh 
again." -- Charles Bukowski]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/154643-sometimes-you-climb-out-of-bed-in-the-morning-and</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:45:06 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Charles Bukowski]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/154643-sometimes-you-climb-out-of-bed-in-the-morning-and]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way." -- Charles Bukowski]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2981-happiness-in-intelligent-people-is-the-rarest-thing-i-know</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:48:30 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Ernest Hemingway]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2981-happiness-in-intelligent-people-is-the-rarest-thing-i-know]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." -- Ernest Hemingway]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/16238-some-people-never-go-crazy-what-truly-horrible-lives-they</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:44:54 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Charles Bukowski]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/16238-some-people-never-go-crazy-what-truly-horrible-lives-they]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." -- Charles Bukowski]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/179956-if-you-have-never-spent-whole-afternoons-with-burning-ears</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:47:17 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Michael Ende]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/179956-if-you-have-never-spent-whole-afternoons-with-burning-ears]]>
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	    <![CDATA["If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger--

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early--

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless--

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next." -- Michael Ende]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2058-there-is-no-friend-as-loyal-as-a-book</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:48:28 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Ernest Hemingway]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2058-there-is-no-friend-as-loyal-as-a-book]]>
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	    <![CDATA["There is no friend as loyal as a book." -- Ernest Hemingway]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5645-second-to-the-right-and-straight-on-til-morning</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:44:26 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by J.M. Barrie]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5645-second-to-the-right-and-straight-on-til-morning]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Second to the right, and straight on 'til morning" -- J.M. Barrie]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/57741-dumbledore-watched-her-fly-away-and-as-her-silvery-glow</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2014 04:32:48 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by J.K. Rowling]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/57741-dumbledore-watched-her-fly-away-and-as-her-silvery-glow]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
&quot;After all this time?&quot;
&quot;Always,&quot; said Snape." -- J.K. Rowling]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/155536-well-while-you-were-in-the-bathroom-i-sat-down</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2014 09:07:41 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by John Green]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/155536-well-while-you-were-in-the-bathroom-i-sat-down]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, and noticed that someone had carved that GOD HATES FAG, which, aside from being a grammatical nightmare, is absolutely ridiculous. So I'm changing it to 'God Hates Baguettes.' It's tough to disagree with that. Everybody hates baguettes." -- John Green]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/256100-sometimes-i-get-real-lonely-sleeping-with-you</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 07:55:46 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Haruki Murakami]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/256100-sometimes-i-get-real-lonely-sleeping-with-you]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you." -- Haruki Murakami]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/16117-sex-is-the-most-fun-you-can-have-without-laughing</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:05:00 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Woody Allen]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/16117-sex-is-the-most-fun-you-can-have-without-laughing]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing." -- Woody Allen]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/510550-logic-is-only-a-way-of-being-ignorant-by-numbers</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 02:10:29 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Terry Pratchett]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/510550-logic-is-only-a-way-of-being-ignorant-by-numbers]]>
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	    <![CDATA["...logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers." -- Terry Pratchett]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/327301-spring-was-moving-in-the-air-above-and-in-the</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 07:06:35 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Kenneth Grahame]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/327301-spring-was-moving-in-the-air-above-and-in-the]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing." -- Kenneth Grahame]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/55320-every-book-every-volume-you-see-here-has-a-soul</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:17:08 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafón]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/55320-every-book-every-volume-you-see-here-has-a-soul]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens." -- Carlos Ruiz Zafón]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9071598-but-in-a-solitary-life-there-are-rare-moments-when</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 13:49:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Madeline Miller]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9071598-but-in-a-solitary-life-there-are-rare-moments-when]]>
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	    <![CDATA["But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me." -- Madeline Miller]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9071601-he-showed-me-his-scars-and-in-return-he-let</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 13:49:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Madeline Miller]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9071601-he-showed-me-his-scars-and-in-return-he-let]]>
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	    <![CDATA["He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none." -- Madeline Miller]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7823500-the-books-we-love-they-love-us-back-and-just</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 13:50:18 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Jay Kristoff]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7823500-the-books-we-love-they-love-us-back-and-just]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell." -- Jay Kristoff]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7858791-too-many-books-too-few-centuries</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 13:50:35 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Jay Kristoff]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7858791-too-many-books-too-few-centuries]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Too many books. Too few centuries." -- Jay Kristoff]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8762082-she-d-grown-up-inside-books-no-matter-how-dark-life</guid>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 13:51:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Jay Kristoff]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8762082-she-d-grown-up-inside-books-no-matter-how-dark-life]]>
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	    <![CDATA["She'd grown up inside books. No matter how dark life became, shutting out the hurt was as easy as opening a cover. A child of murdered parents and a failed rebellion, she'd still walked in the boots of scholars and warriors, queens and conquerors.

The heavens grant us only one life, but through books, we live a thousand." -- Jay Kristoff]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/655734-in-the-darkness-two-shadows-reaching-through-the-hopeless-heavy</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2020 02:06:31 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Madeline Miller]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/655734-in-the-darkness-two-shadows-reaching-through-the-hopeless-heavy]]>
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	    <![CDATA["In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun." -- Madeline Miller]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10009117-if-you-can-t-trust-people-with-nose-rings-to-be</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2020 13:38:06 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Rainbow Rowell]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10009117-if-you-can-t-trust-people-with-nose-rings-to-be]]>
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	    <![CDATA["If you can't trust people with nose rings to be open-minded, who's left?" -- Rainbow Rowell]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/227362-do-you-remember-what-darwin-says-about-music-he-claims</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 02:21:54 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Arthur Conan Doyle]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/227362-do-you-remember-what-darwin-says-about-music-he-claims]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' 
That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. 
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered." -- Arthur Conan Doyle]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/288219-poets-have-tried-to-describe-ankh-morpork-they-have-failed-perhaps</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2020 00:59:16 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Terry Pratchett]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/288219-poets-have-tried-to-describe-ankh-morpork-they-have-failed-perhaps]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder. So let's just say that Ankh-Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colourful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as a dead dog on a termite mound." -- Terry Pratchett]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8226256-i-appear-to-have-misplaced-the-fucks-i-give-for</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:44:56 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Jay Kristoff]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8226256-i-appear-to-have-misplaced-the-fucks-i-give-for]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I appear to have misplaced the fucks I give for what you think." -- Jay Kristoff]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7929850-cock-is-just-another-word-for-fool-but-you-call</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:45:11 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Jay Kristoff]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7929850-cock-is-just-another-word-for-fool-but-you-call]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Cock is just another word for 'fool.' But you call someone a cunt, well...&quot; The girl smiled. &quot;You're implying a sense of malice there. An intent. Malevolent and self-aware. Don't think I name Consul Scaeva a cunt to gift him insult. Cunts have brains, Don Tric. Cunts have teeth. Someone calls you a cunt, you take it as a compliment. As a sign that folks believe you're not to be lightly fucked with." -- Jay Kristoff]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:46:33 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Jay Kristoff]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7823497-bravo-mister-kindly-said-if-only-i-had-hands-to-applaud]]>
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	    <![CDATA["...bravo...' Mister Kindly said,'..if only I had hands to applaud..'
Mia smacked her backside. 'I'd settle for lips to kiss my sweet behind.
'...I would have to find it first...'
Arses are like fine wine, Mister Kindly. Better too little than too much.
' ...a beauty and a philosopher. be still my beating heart...' The not-cat looked down at its translucent chest '...O,wait..." -- Jay Kristoff]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7165886-you-have-me-until-the-last-star-in-the-galaxy</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2020 11:38:04 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Berit add a quote by Amie Kaufman]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7165886-you-have-me-until-the-last-star-in-the-galaxy]]>
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	    <![CDATA["You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me." -- Amie Kaufman]]>
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