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#1

“The truth of the story lies in the details.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

tags: details, story, tension, truth

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#2

“Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.”
― Christina Baldwin

tags: baldwin, christina, journal, journaling, writing

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#3

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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#4

“Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

tags: death, existence, love

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#5

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

tags: novels, philosophy

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#6

“Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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#7

“It is upon such stones that men attempt to permanently etch history so they will not exist in a vacuum; it is the final statement after a lifetime of scratching out divisions upon the ground, over ephemeral time itself, merely to give their short journeys meaning, to tell others “I was here – do not forget me, do not let my brief blast dissolve into nothingness.”
― Rob Bignell

tags: cemetery, gravestone, meaninglessness, tombstone

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#8

“We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste.”
― Rob Bignell, Love Letters to Sophie's Mom

tags: bread, love, poetry

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#9

“Tell me once more about the eternal surf.”
― Rob Bignell

tags: california, love, ocean

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#10

“If my dream comes true,/Is truth then only a dream?”
― Rob Bignell, Love Letters to Sophie's Mom

tags: dreams

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#11

“We are supposed to do something with these/Damn hearts of ours, and we are meant to love and be loved.”
― Rob Bignell

tags: love, poetry

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#12

“If my dream comes true,
Is truth then only a dream?”
― Rob Bignell, Love Letters to Sophie's Mom

tags: dreams, truth

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#13

“I would rather die of love than let love die.”
― Rob Bignell, Love Letters to Sophie's Mom

tags: breakups, love, romance

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#14

“There’s really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

tags: writers-on-writing, writing-advice, writing-affirmation, writing-life

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#15

“Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

tags: writing, writing-inspiration, writing-life

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#16

“I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

tags: autumn, fall, first-frost, garden-spells, lost-lake, sarah-addison-allen, waverly

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#17

“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

tags: answer, truth, view

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#18

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: forgetfulness, forgetting, happiness, memory

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#19

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

tags: inspirational

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#20

“I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.”
― N. Scott Momaday

tags: dreams

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#21

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#22

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
― John Muir, Our National Parks

tags: hiking, mountains, nature, wilderness

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“It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B.

It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

tags: cheryl-strayed, hiking, pacific-crest-trail, wild, wilderness

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#24

“Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.”
― Cindy Ross

tags: hiking, homecoming, journey, life, philosophy

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#25

“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”
― Ed Viesturs, No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

tags: climbing, hiking, mountaineering, safety

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#26

“Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: boulder, climbing, dance, hiking, rhythm, rock

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#27

“The old school of thought would have you believe that you'd be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with every conceivable measure of safety and comfort under the sun. But that isn't what being in nature is all about. Rather, it's about feeling free, unbounded, shedding the distractions and barriers of our civilization—not bringing them with us.”
― Ryel Kestenbaum, The Ultralight Backpacker : The Complete Guide to Simplicity and Comfort on the Trail

tags: backpacking, barriers, burden, civilization, distractions, freedom, hiking, nature, safety, ultralight, unbound, wilderness

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#28

“When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: characters, creative-writing, life, meaningless, meaninglessness, modern-life, paralyzed, water, write, writing

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#29

“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
― Alan Dean Foster

tags: procrastination, writing

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#30

“The writer's task is to invent the reality.”
― J.G. Ballard

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