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    “I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow.”
    ― Francisco X. Alarcón
    tags: ancestors, roots
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    Paulo Coelho
    “People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
    tags: experience
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    Criss Jami
    “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: art, artist, artistic, contemplating, dreams, experience, fantasy, fun, imagination, life, perception, perspective, poetry, reading, reality, solitude, songwriting, thinking, thoughts, universe, vicarious, writing
    1257 likes

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  • #4
    Tara June Winch
    “See, pain travels through our family tree like a songline.”
    ― Tara June Winch, The Yield
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  • #5
    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    ― Annie Proulx
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  • #6
    Patricia Briggs
    “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood
    tags: change, mind, summer, winter
    548 likes

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  • #7
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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  • #8
    Rick Riordan
    “Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: deadlines, humor, procrastinate
    6472 likes

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  • #9
    Barack Obama
    “Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.”
    ― Barack Obama, A Promised Land
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  • #10
    “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
    ― Christina Westover
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  • #11
    Douglas R. Hofstadter
    “For now, what is important is not finding the answer, but looking for it.”
    ― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    tags: problem-solving
    30 likes

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  • #12
    Veronica Roth
    “No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
    tags: brave, bravery, courage, dauntless, experience, life, training
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    Randy Pausch
    “Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: experience
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  • #14
    Rita Mae Brown
    “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater
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  • #15
    Jules Verne
    “Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
    ― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
    tags: experience, failure, science
    710 likes

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  • #16
    Dorothy Parker
    “And if my heart be scarred and burned,
    The safer, I, for all I learned.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems
    617 likes

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  • #17
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “By seeking and blundering we learn.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: education, experience, learning-from-mistakes
    673 likes

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  • #18
    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
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  • #19
    Robert Frost
    “How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: experience, understanding
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: experience
    320 likes

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  • #21
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31523 likes

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  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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  • #23
    Anna Akhmatova
    “If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
    ― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
    tags: love, music
    2134 likes

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  • #24
    Bob Dylan
    “Play it fuckin' loud!”
    ― Bob Dylan
    tags: fuck, music, profanity, rock-music
    2016 likes

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  • #25
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Songs are as sad as the listener.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: music, perception
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    Bob Dylan
    “I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
    ― Bob Dylan
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  • #27
    Henry Miller
    “Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
    ― Henry Miller
    tags: life
    1572 likes

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  • #28
    Lester Bangs
    “The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
    ― Lester Bangs
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  • #29
    John Keats
    “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: books, wine
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  • #30
    “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide.”
    ― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
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