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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: expectation, hope, life
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    William Shakespeare
    “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: love
    9941 likes

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    Richard Hughes
    “Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
    ― Richard Hughes
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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    Sharon Olds
    “I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
    ― Sharon Olds
    tags: writing
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  • #6
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
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    William Blake
    “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
    ― William Blake
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    Mary Leakey
    “Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
    ― Mary Leakey
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Phyllis McGinley
    “A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
    ― Phyllis McGinley
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    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: food, love
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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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    Charles Baudelaire
    “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: books, garden, reading
    1155 likes

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    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: courage, determination, hope, risk
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
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    Georgia O'Keeffe
    “It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.”
    ― Georgia O'Keeffe
    tags: art, georgia-o-keeffe, inspirational, wisdom, women-s-issues
    806 likes



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