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    Roald Dahl
    “Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The BFG
    tags: crazy, funny, words
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    Harold Pinter
    “One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”
    ― Harold Pinter, Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
    tags: life
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    Arthur Miller
    “Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”
    ― Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
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    Terry McMillan
    “Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
    ― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts
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    Doris Lessing
    “Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
    ― Doris Lessing
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    Howard Nemerov
    “Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
    ― Howard Nemerov
    tags: humor, knowledge, literature, writing
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    José Saramago
    “Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
    ― Jose Saramago
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet
    tags: self
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  • #9
    “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    Osip Mandelstam
    “My turn shall also come:
    I sense the spreading of a wing.”
    ― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems
    tags: growth, poetry
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    Muriel Spark
    “To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
    ― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    tags: education, soul
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    Nadezhda Mandelstam
    “I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
    ― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope
    tags: silence, voice
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    John Grisham
    “In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
    ― John Grisham
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    Hilary Mantel
    “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: book, books, fiction, read, reading, stories, story
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  • #16
    “You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.”
    ― Maureen Lipman
    tags: oral-sex, sex
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  • #17
    Phyllis Diller
    “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
    ― Phyllis Diller
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  • #18
    Selma Lagerlöf
    “Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
    ― Selma Lagerlöf
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    Mark Twain
    “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
    ― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    tags: imagination
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    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    ― Anita Desai
    tags: travel
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  • #21
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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    Henry Green
    “The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
    ― Henry Green
    tags: highlight, revision, secrets, storytelling, style, writer, writers
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  • #23
    Beryl Bainbridge
    “The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
    ― Beryl Bainbridge
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: imagination
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    Doris Lessing
    “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
    ― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
    tags: inspirational
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  • #27
    Sue Townsend
    “I have a problem. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever.”
    ― Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
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    Sue Townsend
    “Mrs. Ball has got a daughter who is a writer. I asked her how her daughter qualified to be one. Mrs. Ball said that her daughter was dropped on her head as a child and has been "a bit queer" ever since.”
    ― Sue Townsend
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    Sue Townsend
    “I asked her about my Family Allowance today, she laughed and said she used it for buying gin and cigarettes.”
    ― Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
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