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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Jonathan Swift
    “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: imagination
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    George Eliot
    “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational
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    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: philosophy, science
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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    John Cheever
    “Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
    ― John Cheever
    tags: books, fiction, inspirational, on-fiction, writing
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    Brian Jacques
    “Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
    ― Brian Jacques, Redwall
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    Amy Bloom
    “The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
    ― Amy Bloom, Away
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Eric Carle
    “We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
    ― Eric Carle
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    Lev Grossman
    “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
    ― Lev Grossman, The Magicians
    tags: life-truths, reality-check
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    Francisco Cândido Xavier
    “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
    ― Chico Xavier
    tags: inspirational, life-lessons
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    Mark Sanborn
    “We are responsible for living in a way that shows others who we truly are and what we believe.”
    ― Mark Sanborn, Fred 2.0: New Ideas on How to Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results
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    Dorothea Mackellar
    “I love a sunburnt country,
    A land of sweeping plains,
    Of ragged mountain ranges,
    Of droughts and flooding rains.
    I love her far horizons,
    I love her jewel-sea,
    Her beauty and her terror –
    The wide brown land for me!”
    ― Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar
    tags: australia, australian, poetry
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  • #16
    Watchman Nee
    “Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.”
    ― Watchman Nee
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    Bill Watterson
    “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
    ― Bill Watterson
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    Tosca Lee
    “My #1 rule is write like no one is ever going to read it. Why? Because it gives you permission to be as audacious as you want.”
    ― Tosca Lee
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
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    Kellie Elmore
    “Puttin’ on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn’t make you country; Like puttin’ on a ball gown & glass heels won’t make me Cinderella.”
    ― Kellie Elmore
    tags: cinderella, country, country-life, cowboys, cowgirls, life, love, small-town, southern, southerners, tennessee, the-south
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    Sarah Waters
    “I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
    ― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
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    S.E. Hinton
    “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
    ― S.E. Hinton
    tags: friends, friendship
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    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
    ― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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    Ward Moore
    “Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”
    ― Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee
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    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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    Annie Proulx
    “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
    ― Annie Proulx
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
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    John Paul Warren
    “I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship”
    ― John Paul Warren
    tags: church, john-paul, john-warren, ministry, pastor-john-paul-warren, voice-of-the-nations
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    Mary Renault
    “True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”
    ― mary renault, Fire from Heaven
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  • #30
    H.G. Wells
    “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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