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    “Books are like magic carpets, taking us to places real and imaginary that we never thought possible.”
    ― Bette A Stevens
    tags: inspirational
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    Bette A. Stevens
    “Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous”
    ― Bette A. Stevens, Amazing Matilda: A Monarch's Tale
    tags: children-s-fiction, life-science, social-science
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    “It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
    ― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
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    Jennifer Lee Carrell
    “That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.”
    ― Jennifer Lee Carrell, Interred with Their Bones
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    Dave Eggers
    “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
    ― Dave Eggers
    tags: books, time
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    Dr. Seuss
    “It has often been said
    there’s so much to be read,
    you never can cram
    all those words in your head.

    So the writer who breeds
    more words than he needs
    is making a chore
    for the reader who reads.

    That's why my belief is
    the briefer the brief is,
    the greater the sigh
    of the reader's relief is.

    And that's why your books
    have such power and strength.
    You publish with shorth!
    (Shorth is better than length.)”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: humor, writing
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  • #7
    “If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.”
    ― Taylor Swift
    tags: bullying, humor, inspirational, people, song, song-writing, taylor-swift
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  • #8
    “One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
    ― Michael J. Fox
    tags: abuse, bullying, courage, dignity, saving-milly, self-esteem, strength
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: bullying, moral-courage
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    Desmond Tutu
    “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
    ― Desmond Tutu (Foreword)
    tags: bullying, dissent, moral-courage, protest
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    Kathryn Magendie
    “All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time reading books, or watching television. It was safe. Nobody ever was hurt or teased or looked stupid while reading books or watching television.”
    ― Kathryn Magendie, Sweetie
    tags: bullying, library, reading, tv
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  • #12
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Betsy Byars
    “When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.”
    ― Betsy Byars, The Moon and I
    tags: inspiration, newbery, writing
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  • #14
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: attributed-no-source
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  • #17
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
    tags: art, love
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    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
    ― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
    tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: art, inspiration, love, strength
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    Chuck Klosterman
    “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
    ― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
    tags: art, love, profound
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, art
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    Émile Zola
    “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, calling, life
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  • #24
    Thomas Merton
    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
    ― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
    tags: art
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  • #25
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: art, arts-and-humanities, creative-process, writing
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
    tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement
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  • #28
    Woody Allen
    “Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: art, humor, life
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  • #29
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: art, beauty, glamour, sexuality
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
    21827 likes



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