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“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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“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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#3

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder

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#4

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

tags: art, love, profound

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#5

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

tags: hmmm

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#6

“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
― Charles Eames

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#7

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

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#8

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#9

“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
― Edith Wharton

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#10

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

tags: egg, food

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#11

“I am large, I contain multitudes”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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#12

“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
― O. Henry

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#13

“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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#14

“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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#15

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

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#16

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

tags: language, new-year, voice, words

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#17

“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
― Walter Kirn, Mission to America

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#18

“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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#19

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

tags: happiness

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#20

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

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#21

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
― Tom Perrotta, Joe College

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#22

“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.”
― Ogden Nash

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#23

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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#24

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

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#25

“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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#26

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

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#27

“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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#28

“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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#29

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

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#30

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

tags: wisdom

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