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    Barbara Taylor Bradford
    “We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
    ― Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance
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    C.S. Lewis
    “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Roald Amundsen
    “Adventure is just bad planning.”
    ― Roald Amundsen
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    Donald Barthelme
    “The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
    ― Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari
    tags: literature
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    Ezra Pound
    “Literature is news that stays news.”
    ― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading
    tags: books, literature, reading
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Every great love starts with a great story...”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: romance, storytelling
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    David Henry Hwang
    “I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
    ― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
    tags: happiness
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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
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    Joseph Conrad
    “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: inspirational, life, work
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    W.C. Fields
    “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
    ― W.C. Fields
    tags: labels, names
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    Mary Leakey
    “Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
    ― Mary Leakey
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    Steve Wozniak
    “If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
    ― Steve Wozniak
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends
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    J.K. Rowling
    “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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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
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    Anne Rice
    “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
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    Ava Gardner
    “The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
    ― Ava Gardner
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    James Jones
    “That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
    ― James Jones, From Here to Eternity
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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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    Alan Lightman
    “Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.”
    ― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams
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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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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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    Jane Austen
    “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
    2475 likes



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