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#1

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

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#2

“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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“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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#4

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

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#5

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: books

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#6

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

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#7

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#8

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

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#9

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

tags: imagination

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#10

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

tags: love

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#11

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

tags: change, past, present

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#12

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
― Jane Addams

tags: humanity, inequality, rights, security, society

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#13

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: words

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#14

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

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#15

“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
― William H. Armstrong

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#16

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

tags: criticism, history

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#17

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

tags: flattery, praise, words

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#18

“It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”
― William Carlos Williams

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#19

“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

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#20

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

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

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#21

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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#22

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding

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#23

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

tags: self-sacrifice

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#24

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

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#25

“The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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#26

“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

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#27

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

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#28

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

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#29

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

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#30

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

tags: books, imagination, writing

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