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#1

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

#2

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51618 likes

#3

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

tags: god, good-intentions, humanity, religion

1984 likes

#4

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

4350 likes

#5

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

2333 likes

#6

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

tags: love, sadness

4110 likes

#7

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

2802 likes

#8

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

2423 likes

#9

“are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing”
― Hettie Jones

1276 likes

#10

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

2836 likes

#11

“On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald

tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-craft, writing-humor

960 likes

#12

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

3729 likes

#13

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

tags: imagination, writing

2555 likes

#14

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

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

135589 likes

#15

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope

5434 likes

#16

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

9963 likes

#17

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
― John Cheever

tags: books, fiction, inspirational, on-fiction, writing

1264 likes

#18

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

6734 likes

#19

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

tags: knowledge

1163 likes

#20

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

1467 likes

#21

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

tags: salinger, stories

6595 likes

#22

“Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
― Ibn-e-Safi

1424 likes

#23

“Maybe the grass is greener on the other side depends who was standing in it. Sometimes you have to go over there and look.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins

1238 likes

#24

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: love

5295 likes

#25

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: kiss, love, nature

2558 likes

#26

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

tags: melancholy

1741 likes

#27

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

2437 likes

#28

“Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and I said, "No. Not past tense." She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: death, dying

83 likes

#29

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

2242 likes

#30

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

6820 likes

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