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#1

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

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#2

“I now walk into the wild.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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#3

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

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#4

“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
― Mona Van Duyn

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#5

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#6

“Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me”
― Abbi Glines, Twisted Perfection

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#7

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

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#8

“It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”
― Ian McEwan

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#9

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

tags: books, inspirational

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#10

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

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#11

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

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#12

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

tags: action, deeds, game, lying, playing, responsibility

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#13

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

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#14

“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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#15

“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
― Vikram Chandra

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#16

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

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#17

“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
― Julia Child

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#18

“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.”
― Ogden Nash

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#19

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
― Jude Deveraux

tags: an-angel-for-emily, emily-todd

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#20

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

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#21

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: foreshadowing, macbeth

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#22

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

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#23

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

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#24

“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

tags: inspirational, life

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#25

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

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#26

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

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