Quotes - Cynthia (cynthiaannehurt) Showing 1-30 of 47

#1

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

#2

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

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#3

“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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#4

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

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#5

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#6

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#7

“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
― Ernesto Guevara

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#8

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

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#9

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

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#10

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

tags: inspirational

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#11

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

tags: beauty, canyons, carvings, nature, perseverance, suffering, windstorms

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#12

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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#13

“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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#14

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
― Phyllis Diller

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#15

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

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#16

“O beautiful for spacious skies
for amber waves of grain”
― Katharine Lee Bates

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#17

“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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#18

“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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#19

“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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#20

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

tags: inspirational

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#21

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

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#22

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#23

“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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#24

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

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#25

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

tags: expectation

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#26

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

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#27

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

tags: life

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