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    John Updike
    “What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
    ― John Updike
    tags: art, books, literature, reading, words
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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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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    Zadie Smith
    “Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.”
    ― Zadie Smith, On Beauty
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    Zadie Smith
    “Time is how you spend your love.”
    ― Zadie Smith
    tags: love
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    Harvey Fierstein
    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
    ― Harvey Fierstein
    tags: be-yourself, identity, individuality, inspirational, life, self-determination, self-esteem, self-expression
    2943 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    ― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters
    tags: friends, humor, people
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Albert Camus
    “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: civilization, writers, writing
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    Albert Camus
    “I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Plague
    tags: afterlife, compassion, life, religion
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    Anne Lamott
    “For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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    Anne Lamott
    “It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
    tags: life
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    Anne Lamott
    “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
    tags: on-writing
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    Toni Morrison
    “As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: dreams, power
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    Toni Morrison
    “Love is never any better than the lover.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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    Toni Morrison
    “You are your best thing”
    ― Toni Morrison, Beloved
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    Toni Morrison
    “True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a place on the job market, a place her mate could not get or which his pride would not let him accept.And she had nothing to fall back on: not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything. And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may very well have invented herself.”
    ― Toni Morrison
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    Audre Lorde
    “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: courage, empowering, fear, feminist, political, powerful, vision, women-strength
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    Audre Lorde
    “I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: duty, pain, survival, trimuph, truth
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    Audre Lorde
    “But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: consciousness, feminist, lesbian, womanist
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    Audre Lorde
    “Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    Audre Lorde
    “...oppression is as American as apple pie... ”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    Audre Lorde
    “We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    Audre Lorde
    “see me now
    your severed daughter
    laughing our name into echo
    all the world shall remember ”
    ― Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems
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    Henry Miller
    “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
    ― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
    tags: books, power
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    William Goldman
    “When I was your age, television was called books.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: book, fantasy, humour
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    Lauren Oliver
    “It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
    tags: aspirations, desires, fantasy, inner-life
    2368 likes



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