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#1

“You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.”
― John Irving, In One Person

tags: friends, learning, lesson, life, love

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#2

“Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.”
― Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?

tags: argument, friendship

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#3

“What's more, I was free to do anything that did not hurt others that strengthened me and helped me in the one thing that we are all put on this earth to do: help one another - because it is the only thing that, in the long run, gives us pleasure, as receiving love and friendship and affection is the only thing that gives us joy and ameliorates the dread of our inevitable extinction.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

tags: affection, dread, earth, extinction, free, friendship, help, hurt, joy, love, pleasure

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#4

“[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.”
― Amit Chaudhuri, Calcutta: Two Years in the City

tags: art, bloodless, delicate, food, line

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#5

“She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying that she didn't meet standards of beauty and not understanding how standards of health were so much more important.”
― Jo Walton, My Real Children

tags: appreciation, beauty, health, worry

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#6

“I am your little ram,
burying his muzzle in thick grass of your pasture,

folded by you at night, herded by day,
a dedicated dog nipping at my hocks.

The day will come for you to draw
the bright sickle of the moon

across my wooly throat.
Do it with love, without regret.”
― Mark Wunderlich, The Earth Avails: Poems

tags: death, love, regret

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#7

“She grinned, a silty grin. 'You were my two dividends, yes? Don't you forget that.'

Then she sighed, took a deep breath, and said, 'But what an investment. My life.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

tags: dividends, investment, life, motherhood

6 likes

#8

“I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.”
― Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

tags: explain, language, style, think

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#9

“Love is circumstantial; we can love anyone if need be; and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.”
― Andrew Solomon

tags: anyone, catastrophe, circumstantial, grief, heal, loss, love, need, past, present, time, yearning

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#10

“But you know, as I do, that the storm will pass
And that the implacable sun doesn't simply stop
When obscured by a dark, pernicious cloud,
Which is why I know I'll return to your house-
On a Sunday that's there on the calendar-
And laugh with you over a glass of grappa.”
― Mauricio Rosencof

tags: calendar, cloud, dark, hope, house, know, laugh, return, storm, sun

11 likes

#11

“Love is dangerous and often violent in the sense that it can radically alter us at a moment’s notice.”
― Roberto Montes

tags: alter, dangerous, love, radically, violent

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#12

“[S]ometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.”
― Gene Luen Yang, The Shadow Hero

tags: fight, inspirational, win, worth

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#13

“As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!”
― James Oppenheim

tags: battle, birth, bodies, bread, children, hearts, inspirational, lives, marching, men, mother, roses, starve

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#14

“It's weird how I am constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the Universe.”
― Randall Munroe

tags: constantly, passage, predictable, surprised, time, universe

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#15

“Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul.”
― Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

tags: clothes, embarrassment, shyness, soul

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#16

“Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.”
― Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

tags: companionship, intimacy, love, relationship

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#17

“So if you, O subsequent ones, ever deign to look down at us from your summit of effortless superiority, remember that you have only scaled it on the back of our efforts. For it is thankless to grope in the dark and tempting to rest until the light of understanding shines upon us. But if we are led into this temptation, your kingdom will never come.”
― Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

tags: dark, efforts, grope, kingdom, knowledge, light, research, summit, superiority, temptation, understanding

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#18

“Camomille: Fallible men write books. God writes in sunlight and rivers and planets. Isn't the Universe a good book? I trust it above the printed kind.”
― Mark Siegel, Sailor Twain: Or: The Mermaid in the Hudson

tags: books, fallible, god, inspirational, men, planets, printed, rivers, sunlight, trust, universe, write

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#19

“Approaching the Start of Civil Exams

Perhaps I was once a young Chinese scholar
approaching the start of civil exams,
my mind grown weary and sad from seclusion
with books on syntax and poetic style.

All that I knew were the mist-covered mountains
and sweet white blossoms of mountain apples
that grew in the valleys of my province.

But I had been gone over six years
busy with studies in the Heavenly City
empty and thin despite my work.

I showed my verses to an older poet
who told me a truth I longed to believe:
all knowledge is futile and barren
which does not open the love of your friends.”
― Jim Chapson

tags: barren, blossoms, books, busy, chinese, friendship, futile, knowledge, love, mist, mountains, poet, poetic, sad, scholar, seclusion, style, sweet, syntax, truth, verses, weary, work

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#20

“Yvan's a very tolerant bloke, which of course, when it comes to relationships, is the worst thing you can be.
Yvan's very tolerant because he couldn't care less.”
― Yasmina Reza, 'Art'

tags: friendship, relationship, tolerance

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#21

“I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that what was communicated was less a particular poem than the echo of poetic possibility. Insofar as I was interested in the arts, I was interested in the disconnect between my experience of actual artworks and the claims made on their behalf; the closest I'd come to having a profound experience of art was probably the experience of this distance, a profound experience of the absence of profundity.”
― Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station

tags: art, beauty, experience, poetry, prose

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#22

“Their friendship sometimes struck Frances as being like a piece of soap-like a piece of ancient kitchen soap that had got worn to the shape of her hand, but which had been dropped to the floor so many times it was never quite free of its bits of cinder.”
― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

tags: ancient, cinder, dropped, friendship, hand, kitchen, shape, soap, worn

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#23

“I think deeply about things and want others to do likewise. I work for ideas and learn from people. I don’t like excluding people. I’m a perfectionist, but I won’t let that get in the way of publication. Except for education and entertainment, I’m not going to waste my time on things that won’t have an impact. I try to be friends with everyone, but I hate it when you don’t take me seriously. I don’t hold grudges, it’s not productive, but I learn from my experience. I want to make the world a better place.”
― Aaron Swartz

tags: better, deeply, education, entertainment, experience, friends, grudges, ideas, impact, inspirational, people, perfectionist, productive, publication, think, time, waste, world

52 likes

#24

“Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had told me were just the natural way things were, the way things always would be, they weren’t natural at all. They were things that could be changed, and they were things that, more importantly, were wrong and should change, and once I realized that, there was really no going back.”
― Aaron Swartz

tags: change, inspirational, natural, people, process, wrong

27 likes

#25

“[O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.”
― Naomi Klein

tags: culture, future, past, present

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#26

“The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: balance, good, inspirational, patience, right, win

7 likes

#27

“Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day. Sometimes they exist to comfort you. Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad. Be open to either as a form of self-improvement.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: comfort, everybody, friend, lover, relationships, self-improvement, somebody, spouse

8 likes

#28

“Finally

a day will come when
woken by the xylophone
of sunthroughblinds
you’ll realise

that the beach was not the place
where horses tore the sand
to ribbon

that the scent of him has lifted
from the last of the sheets
that he isn’t coming back

that it hasn’t rained
but the birds are pretending that it has
so they can sing”
― Andrew McMillan, Physical

tags: loss, love, memory, realization, regret

3 likes

#29

“I think we all care deeply about things that seem totally inconsequential to other people. We all carry around with us the flotsam and jetsam of perceived humiliations that actually mean nothing. We are a mass of vulnerabilities, and who knows what will trigger them?”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

tags: humiliation, shame, vulnerability

22 likes

#30

“they say we’re losing centimetres
every year; as if we were
a beach that’s losing
ground with every salt advance

the night is overcast
but why not try, at least,
to touch the things our orbits
cannot hold, while there’s time
while we can.”
― Andrew McMillan, Every Salt Advance

tags: loss, touch, try

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