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#1

“Love is a rebellious bird,
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
― Ludovic Halévy

tags: love, opera

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#2

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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#3

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#4

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

tags: dracula

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#5

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
― Ben Jonson

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#6

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#7

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: benediction, johnny-cade, ponyboy-curtis, ralph-macchio

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#8

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

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#9

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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#10

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

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#11

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

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#12

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

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#13

“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

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#14

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

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#15

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

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#16

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: regret, regrets, sincerity

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#17

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

tags: community

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#18

“Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
― William Congreve

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#19

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

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#20

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: labels, names

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#21

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

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#22

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

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#23

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#24

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

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#25

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

tags: stories

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#26

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

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#27

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

tags: courage, talent

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#28

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

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#29

“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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#30

“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

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