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#1

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20724 likes

#2

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

16290 likes

#3

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

17369 likes

#4

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

23763 likes

#5

“If you're going to read this, don't bother.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

tags: first-sentences, opening-lines

219 likes

#6

“You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

tags: first-lines, opening-lines

174 likes

#7

“All this happened, more or less.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: first-sentence

1045 likes

#8

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: first-sentence

318 likes

#9

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

84885 likes

#10

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self

9087 likes

#11

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

13375 likes

#12

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, respect

13431 likes

#13

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial

9401 likes

#14

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
― Oprah Winfrey

tags: experience, inspirational, pain, wisdom, wounds

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