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    “I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
    ― James Michener
    tags: writing
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    William Wordsworth
    “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
    ― William Wordsworth
    tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart
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  • #4
    “Love covers all sins”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
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  • #5
    Arnold Lobel
    “Books to the ceiling,
    Books to the sky,
    My pile of books is a mile high.
    How I love them! How I need them!
    I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
    ― Arnold Lobel
    tags: books, reading
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    Kellie Elmore
    “Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.”
    ― Kellie Elmore
    tags: book-quotes, books, heaven, heaven-quotes, imagination, reading
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    Jen Knox
    “When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.”
    ― Jen Knox, Chaos Magic
    tags: books, jen-knox, philosophy-of-life, psychology, reading, women-writers, writing-process, writing-process-writing-advice
    20 likes

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    Elbert Hubbard
    “I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: reading
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
    ― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
    tags: christmas
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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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  • #11
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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  • #12
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: dreams, future, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Tasha Tudor
    “Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it!”
    ― Tasha Tudor
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    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
    ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
    tags: happy, honesty, life
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    Tasha Tudor
    “Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I’m very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don’t want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error…”
    ― Tasha Tudor
    tags: clothing, femininity, womanhood
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    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
    ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
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  • #17
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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  • #18
    Kay Bratt
    “I need to know who I was, in order to go forward and be who I am meant to be.”
    ― Kay Bratt
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Cliff Graham
    “It is a comfort to know that, regardless of our mistakes, the God who loved, forgave, and empowered David does the same for us.”
    ― Cliff Graham
    tags: day-of-war
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: friend, honesty
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    Russell Baker
    “The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.”
    ― Russell Baker
    tags: writing
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #25
    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    ― Alice Hoffman
    tags: books
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    Shelly Crane
    “I saw something in you that I couldn't live without. I chose you, inside of me, and you chose me. It's not one sided, it only works when both people choose the other. You are perfect for me in every way.”
    ― Shelly Crane, Significance
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  • #27
    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: books
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Yasalar Üzerine
    tags: commandments, essential, justice, law, reason, society
    593 likes

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  • #30
    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
    3990 likes



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