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    Jane Austen
    “I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: conversations, sociability, social-anxiety
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    C.S. Lewis
    “To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a net whereby to catch something else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
    tags: fiction-writing, literature-quotes
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    C.S. Lewis
    “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god
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    C.S. Lewis
    “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: atheism, religion
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can make anything by writing.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: writing
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    C.S. Lewis
    “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
    tags: stupid
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: change, life-lessons, love, pain
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: c-s-lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. ”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: writing
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    C.S. Lewis
    “One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
    tags: fantasy-fiction
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: c-s-lewis, till-we-have-faces, writing, writing-craft
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
    tags: fairy-tales, imagination, stories, storytelling
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Jaime Jo Wright
    “Murder of crows. Horrible term, considering the circumstances. Why couldn’t they be flocks like other birds?”
    ― Jaime Jo Wright, The House on Foster Hill
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    Jaime Jo Wright
    “Strength isn't a feeling. It's the will to forget ahead regardless of the circumstances.”
    ― Jaime Jo Wright, The Curse of Misty Wayfair
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    Jaime Jo Wright
    “I know that I come from a line of strong women, who fought for their families, fought for those they loved, and saw hope in their future. And I know . . .” She breathed deep in the realization of it. “I know I am one of them.”
    ― Jaime Jo Wright, The House on Foster Hill
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    David Morrell
    “As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.”
    ― David Morrell
    tags: inspirational, writing
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    “Heart and flesh often fail. Let them fail! He faileth not.”
    ― Hudson Taylor
    tags: christian, encouragement
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    Ellen Senechal
    “Clinging to the past is like walking backward down a long road. As long as our backs are turned on what lies ahead, and our eyes are focused on what lies behind, we cannot take full notice of all God has planned for us.”
    ― Ellen Senechal, The Whispers God Gives: A 30-Day Devotional Book for Teen Girls
    tags: christian, devotion, devotional, encouragement, teens
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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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    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    ― Henry Ward Beecherr
    tags: books, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: books, truth
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    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: books, reading
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    Groucho Marx
    “From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading
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    Jane Austen
    “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: men, mountains, rocks
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    Mark Twain
    “One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: advice, clever, exclamation-point, writing
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  • #30
    Jesseca Wheaton
    “Forget the dogs; books were man's best friend.”
    ― Jesseca Wheaton, A Question of Honor
    tags: books, fun
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