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#1

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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#2

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#4

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#5

“We anticipate Time, and welcome it when birth comes in the door, then we hate Time and curse it, when death exits the door.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: catch-22, outlook, time

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#6

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
― Pauline Kael

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#7

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

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#8

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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#9

“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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#10

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#11

“The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: away, blossom, death, flower, leave, loss, petals, tomb, womb

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#12

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

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#13

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

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#14

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: censorship

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#15

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

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#16

“The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
― Ava Gardner

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#17

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

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#18

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#19

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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#20

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: writing-advice

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#21

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

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#22

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

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#23

“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro

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#24

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

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#25

“Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant;
the only harmless great thing.”
― John Donne

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#26

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: garcin, hell, people

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#27

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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#28

“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
― Shusaku Endo

tags: weakness

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#29

“It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

tags: brokenness

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