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#1

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: inspirational, writing

#2

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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#3

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter

2626 likes

#4

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

tags: life

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#5

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

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#6

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

tags: alone, books, friends, solitude

3498 likes

#7

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

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#8

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance

4233 likes

#9

“Relearn astonishment.”
― Elias Canetti

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#10

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

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#11

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: benediction

3145 likes

#12

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

2890 likes

#13

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7687 likes

#14

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

9299 likes

#15

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

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#16

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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#17

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

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#18

“Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
― Aisha Tyler

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#19

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

21868 likes

#20

“The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy

1256 likes

#21

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135698 likes

#22

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

tags: anne-rice, pandora

2819 likes

#23

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

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#24

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

1986 likes

#25

“The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.”
― Beth Lisick

1488 likes

#26

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

2284 likes

#27

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

2447 likes

#28

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

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#29

“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

8643 likes

#30

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

tags: imagination, writing

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