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    Flannery O'Connor
    “She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon
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    Muriel Rukeyser
    “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
    ― Muriel Rukeyser
    tags: craft, inspirational, muriel-rukeyser, writers
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    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
    ― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
    tags: sun-drenched, travel
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    Jack Kerouac
    “What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: adventure, goodbye, travel
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    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: discovery, travel
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: goals, journey, travel
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    Marcel Proust
    “People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: death, immortality, life, travel
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    S.E. Hinton
    “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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    S.E. Hinton
    “I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.”
    ― Susan E. Hinton, The Outsiders
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    S.E. Hinton
    “Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy”
    ― S.E. Hinton
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
    tags: inspirational
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
    tags: insightful
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
    tags: writing
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
    tags: pain, voice
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: classics, inspirational
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

    Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: desires, dreams, life, men, wishes, women
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130241 likes

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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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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
    39879 likes



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