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    Lisa Schroeder
    “Joy, not sorrow.
    Laughter, not tears.
    Life, not death.
    Love, not blame.”
    ― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me
    tags: benediction, optimism, positivism
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: writing
    3852 likes

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    William Ernest Henley
    “It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate:
    I am the captain of my soul.”
    ― William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death
    tags: captain, fate, master
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    Martin Amis
    “Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”
    ― Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007
    tags: love
    1429 likes

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    Orson Scott Card
    “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: identity, pretend
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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    “A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
    tags: mind, new-ideas
    1456 likes

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    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Logan Pearsall Smith
    tags: life, reading
    3933 likes

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    Roald Dahl
    “Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The BFG
    tags: crazy, funny, words
    1963 likes

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    Agatha Christie
    “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
    tags: impossible
    2668 likes

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    China Miéville
    “A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
    ― China Miéville, King Rat
    tags: challenge, trap
    2343 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
    17574 likes

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    Robert Benchley
    “The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”
    ― Robert Benchley, My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew
    tags: humor
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    E.E. Cummings
    “I will take the sun in my mouth
    and leap into the ripe air
    Alive
    with closed eyes
    to dash against darkness”
    ― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954
    2379 likes

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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
    ― Abraham Maslow
    tags: tools
    1494 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: opportunity
    2254 likes

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  • #16
    “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    George Saunders
    “Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
    ― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone
    tags: confusion, life, open, possibilities
    1964 likes

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    Tsugumi Ohba
    “There is no heaven or hell.
    No matter what you do while you're alive, everybody goes to the same place once you die.

    Death is Equal.”
    ― Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note, Vol. 12: Finis
    tags: death-note, light-yagami, ryuk, shinigami
    214 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
    11349 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
    12465 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: balrog, gandalf, guardianship, orc
    818 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fly you fools”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: gandalf, guardianship
    558 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    Peter Jackson
    “A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.”
    ― Peter Jackson, The Art of The Return of the King
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: aragorn, gallantry, heroes, lord-of-the-rings, oath
    237 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “You cannot pass!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: timelessness
    189 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
    58027 likes

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    Alan W. Watts
    “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Anderson Cooper
    “The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
    ― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
    1997 likes



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