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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Barbara Hambly
    “The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.”
    ― Barbara Hambly, The Time of the Dark
    tags: advice, fantasy
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    Stephen King
    “The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: horror
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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  • #6
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, politics
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: attributed-no-source, writing
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    Neil Gaiman
    “This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    Isaac Asimov
    “You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: persistence, writing
    313 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: advice, writing
    1007 likes

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    Philip Pullman
    “I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'

    [Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: atheism, atheist, difficulty, possibility, sarcasm, spiritual, spirituality, understanding, writing
    452 likes

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  • #19
    “Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.”
    ― Catherine Drinker Bowen
    tags: books, writing
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: books, writing
    340 likes

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    Carlos Fuentes
    “One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.”
    ― Carlos Fuentes
    tags: books, death, writing
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    Margaret Drabble
    “What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.”
    ― Margaret Drabble
    tags: writers, writing
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    Garrison Keillor
    “Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: writers, writing
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    Peter S. Beagle
    “But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what?”
    ― Peter S. Beagle
    tags: writers, writing
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    Lionel Trilling
    “Immature artists imitate.
    Mature artists steal.”
    ― Lionel Trilling
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Progress just means bad things happen faster.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
    tags: education, humor, life, philosphy, truth
    488 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    3738 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-facts
    1806 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg
    tags: dr-seuss, humor, inspirational, musical
    3069 likes

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    Ian Fleming
    “You only live twice:
    Once when you are born
    And once when you look death in the face”
    ― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
    tags: death, haiku, james-bond, philosophy, poetry
    2815 likes

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  • #31
    Tamora Pierce
    “You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
    "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess
    tags: alanna, amusing, philosophy, tamora-pierce
    1568 likes



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