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    Jane Austen
    “Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
    tags: deception, honesty, relationships, truth
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: death, sleep
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    Stephen King
    “Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: darlings, deleting, editing, kill, revising, writing
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    Stephen King
    “When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: authorship, critical-thinking, editing, revisions, writing
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    Jarod Kintz
    “There Are Two Typos Of People In This World: Those Who Can Edit And Those Who Can’t”
    ― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
    tags: forgetting, lover, oblivion, opiate, sleep
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: life, live, sleep, tomorrow
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Jane Austen
    “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Jane Austen
    “You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet, past, pleasure, remembrance
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    Jane Austen
    “I am excessively diverted.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing
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    Stephen King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
    tags: love, romance
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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    Jarod Kintz
    “Reading—it’s the third best thing to do in bed.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible
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    Sylvain Reynard
    “You blossom under kindness, don't you? Like a rose.”
    ― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno
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    Sylvain Reynard
    “When I told you that I was intending to worship you with my body, I meant it. With all my heart. I will never take from you. I will only give. In my bed and outside of it.”
    ― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno
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    John Green
    “Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.”
    ― John Green
    tags: nerdfighters, nerdiness, romance
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Neil Gaiman
    “People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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  • #27
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
    tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen
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    Michael Crichton
    “I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
    ― Michael Crichton
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    Jim Marrs
    “Your mind is like a parachute, It works best open..”
    ― Jim Marrs
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    Roberto Bolaño
    “Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
    ― Roberto Bolano
    tags: death, fear, hope, peace, reading, sex
    1391 likes



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