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    Stephen E. Ambrose
    “There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.”
    ― Stephen Ambrose
    tags: writing-craft
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    Nora Roberts
    “I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.”
    ― Nora Roberts
    tags: writing-craft
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    Robert Hass
    “It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.”
    ― Robert Hass
    tags: fiction-writing, robert-hass, writing, writing-craft, writing-life
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
    tags: writing-craft, writing-process
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    Stephen J. Cannell
    “I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.”
    ― Stephen J. Cannell
    tags: writing, writing-craft, writing-life, writing-philosophy, writing-process
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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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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
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    Toni Morrison
    “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
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    Peter F. Drucker
    “The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
    ― Peter F. Drucker
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    Ivan Illich
    “School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.”
    ― Ivan Illich
    tags: education, homeschool, homeschooling
    183 likes

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  • #17
    Seneca
    “It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Tom Wolfe
    “You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
    ― Tom Wolfe
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  • #20
    “Selbsterkenntnis ist kein einmaliges Ereignis, sondern eine Gewohnheit.”
    ― Nicolas Dierks, Was tue ich hier eigentlich? Philosophisch denken lernen und nebenbei das Leben verstehen
    tags: erkenntnis, inspirational, philosophy
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    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, knowledge
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  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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  • #23
    Agostinho da Silva
    “I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
    ― Agostinho da Silva
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