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    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
    tags: intelligence, mind, poverty
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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
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    Anaïs Nin
    “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.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
    tags: ecstasy, escape, freedom, intoxication, reality
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    François Mauriac
    “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
    ― Francois Mauriac
    tags: books, literacy, reading
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    George Burns
    “If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
    ― George Burns
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    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Logan Pearsall Smith
    tags: life, reading
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
    tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life
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    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
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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
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    Ken Kesey
    “It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
    ― Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale
    tags: enlightenment, existence
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
    tags: curiosity
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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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
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Do a loony-goony dance
    'Cross the kitchen floor,
    Put something silly in the world
    That ain't been there before.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic
    tags: dance, silly
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    T.S. Eliot
    “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
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    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
    “To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
    ― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms
    tags: content, materialism
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    H.G. Wells
    “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
    tags: jealousy, morality
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
    tags: evil, judgement, right
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    John Steinbeck
    “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
    tags: repression, strength
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    Gore Vidal
    “The unfed mind devours itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: secrets
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally
    tags: brains, marriage
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    Terry McMillan
    “Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
    ― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts
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    “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
    ― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
    tags: desk, viewpoint
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    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: breath, existence
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    Kay Ryan
    “The day misspent,
    the love misplaced,
    has inside it
    the seed of redemption.
    Nothing is exempt
    from resurrection.”
    ― Kay Ryan, Say Uncle
    tags: redemption
    926 likes



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