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    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: writing
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    William Strunk Jr.
    “Omit needless words.”
    ― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly
    tags: writing-words
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    Margaret Walker
    “When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
    ― Margaret Walker
    tags: books, inspirational
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    Brian Selznick
    “Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.”
    ― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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    Vikram Chandra
    “The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
    ― Vikram Chandra
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    Amelia Earhart
    “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
    ― Amelia Earhart
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    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
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    Voltaire
    “No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    ― Herman Melville
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    Bei Dao
    “In the world I am
    Always a stranger
    I do not understand its language
    It does not understand my silence”
    ― Bei Dao
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    Dennis Lehane
    “There's something ugly about the flawless.”
    ― Dennis Lehane, Sacred
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “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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    David Henry Hwang
    “I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
    ― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
    tags: happiness
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    Tom Perrotta
    “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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    Julia Child
    “I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
    ― Julia Child
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    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Ogden Nash
    “Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
    And that's what parents were created for.”
    ― Ogden Nash
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    Edgar Lee Masters
    “To this generation I would say:
    Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
    ― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
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    Paulo Coelho
    “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
    3463 likes

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    Martin Amis
    “Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”
    ― Martin Amis
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    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    “Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
    ― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan
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    Janet Frame
    “There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
    ― Janet Frame
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    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    ― John Locke
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    Robert Crumb
    “Keep on truckin'”
    ― R. Crumb
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    Maria Montessori
    “Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
    ― Maria Montessori
    tags: imagination
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    Eugene Field
    “No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
    ― Eugene Field
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    Kiran Desai
    “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
    ― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
    tags: change, past, present
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    Antonin Artaud
    “Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”
    ― Antonin Artaud
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    Boris Pasternak
    “I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
    ― Boris Pasternak
    tags: life
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    Jane Addams
    “The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
    ― Jane Addams
    tags: humanity, inequality, rights, security, society
    1104 likes



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