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    W.B. Yeats
    “Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.”
    ― W. B. Yeats
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    George Moore
    “We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
    ― George Moore
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    Neil LaBute
    “The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
    ― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty
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    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
    tags: inspirational, writing
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    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: courage, talent
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    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
    tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey
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    Conan O'Brien
    “If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
    ― Conan O'Brien
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “I will drink life to the lees.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Carolyn Forché
    “The heart is the toughest part of the body.
    Tenderness is in the hands.”
    ― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador
    tags: inspirational, love
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”
    ― J.M. Barrie
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    Red Pine
    “As a lamp, a cataract, a star in space
    an illusion, a dewdrop, a bubble
    a dream, a cloud, a flash of lightning
    view all created things like this.”
    ― Red Pine, The Diamond Sutra
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    Edward Lear
    “The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
    In a beautiful pea green boat...”
    ― Edward Lear
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    David Wroblewski
    “You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
    ― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
    tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure
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    John Cheever
    “I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
    ― John Cheever
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    Alexander Pushkin
    “I want to understand you,
    I study your obscure language.”
    ― Alexander Pushkin
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    Vikram Seth
    “God save us from people who mean well.”
    ― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
    tags: god, good-intentions, humanity, religion
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae
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    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    ― Anita Desai
    tags: travel
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    Yann Martel
    “It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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    Pearl S. Buck
    “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
    ― Pearl S. Buck
    tags: contentment
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fantasy, fear, kvothe, man-s, name, patrick-rothfuss, wind, wise
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Richard Matheson
    “That which you believe becomes your world.”
    ― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
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    L.J. Smith
    “I never cheat. I practice Gamesmanship - the art of winning games without actually cheating.”
    ― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game
    tags: julian
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    L.J. Smith
    “The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.”
    ― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game
    tags: life, truth, wisdom
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    L.J. Smith
    “He looked at her then, and she could see he wasn't afraid.
    "Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten," he said.”
    ― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game
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    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope
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