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"I take a nap. ... It doesn't help much, but then it doesn't do any harm."
— Pamela Ball (Lava: A Novel)

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"In every queen there's a touch of floozy."
— E.B. White

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"Optimism is a cure for many things."
— Micheal J. Fox

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"Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works better if the salt accompanies a large margarita."
— Maxine of greeting card fame, on aging

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"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."
— George Carlin

tags: dance, dancing, music
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"Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity."
— Vladimir Nabokov

tags: imagination
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"Poetry might be described as the clear expression of mixed feelings."
— W.H. Auden (New Year Letter)

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"The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all."
— Annie Dillard, speaking on writing

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"I've buried a lot of my laundry in the back yard."
— Phyllis Diller

tags: housekeeping, laundry
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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: simplicity, sophistication
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"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."
— Pearl S. Buck

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"Age doesn't make you forgetful. Having way too many stupid things to remember makes you forgetful."
— Maxine of greeting card fame once again

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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
— Marcel Proust

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"There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person."
— Rumer Godden

tags: godden, rumer
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"Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage."
— Frances Mayes

tags: frances, mayes
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"Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places."
— Frances Mayes (Bringing Tuscany Home: Sensuous Style From the Heart of Italy)

tags: frances, mayes
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"To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light."
— Coventry Patmore

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"Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we give in to without getting anything in return except for the brutal discovery of our weakness."
— Paolo Maurensig

tags: fiction, historical, music
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"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."
— Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life)

tags: books, journey, reading, travel
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"My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."
— Malcolm X

tags: books, reading
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"When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: bookworms, heavenly, judgment, reading, rewards
141 people liked it

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

tags: activism, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
— Robert Frost

tags: poetry
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"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
— Albert Einstein

tags: compassion, einstein, nature, philosophy
521 people liked it

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
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"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
— May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: humor, philosophy
833 people liked it

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, philosophy, religion
377 people liked it

"All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil."
— Benjamin Disraeli

tags: philosophy
19 people liked it

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
— Jessamyn West

tags: books, fiction, reality, truth
214 people liked it

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
1,827 people liked it

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: fact, ignorance, truth
1,161 people liked it

"'I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.'"
— Philip Pullman (The Amber Spyglass)

tags: evil, good, lies, love, mrs-coulter, truth
39 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
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"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: books, learning, love, serenity
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"What refuge is there for the victim who is possessed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to read a hundred?"
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

tags: books, read
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"No furniture is so charming as books."
— Sydney Smith

tags: books
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"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: author, book, humorist, poet, wit
501 people liked it

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death, love
2,191 people liked it

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
— Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love
603 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life
3,667 people liked it

"Poems are never finished - just abandoned"
— Paul Valéry

tags: poem, writing
60 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,385 people liked it

"The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love."
— W. Somerset Maugham

tags: love
181 people liked it

"It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."
— Tom Stoppard

tags: love
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"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Lathe of Heaven)

tags: love
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"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.
I'd been broken beyond repair."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

tags: heart-break, love
3,325 people liked it

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