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    Dean Koontz
    “She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.”
    ― Dean Koontz, Lightning
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Keith Donohue
    “Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.”
    ― Keith Donohue
    tags: books, reading
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Keith Donohue
    “Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.”
    ― Keith Donohue
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    Jostein Gaarder
    “Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
    tags: philosophy, self-knowledge
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: writing
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    Anita Shreve
    “There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.”
    ― Anita Shreve
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling
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    Amy Tan
    “Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Wendy Mass
    “A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you."

    The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?"

    The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.”
    ― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
    tags: inspirational
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: books, life
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
    ― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Whitney Otto
    “The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are ‘brutally honest.’ When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend…And the best men cook for you.”
    ― Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
    tags: dating-advice, honesty, men-and-women
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    Plato
    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
    ― Plato
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    Haruki Murakami
    “What happens when people open their hearts?"
    "They get better.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: healing, vulnerability
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: decisions, love, stars, taking-chances
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars
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    Yukio Mishima
    “When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.”
    ― Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love
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    Yukio Mishima
    “True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
    ― Yukio Mishima
    tags: beauty, cruelty, love
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    Rob Sheffield
    “When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”
    ― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
    tags: death, music, remember, songs
    785 likes

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    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: importance, kiss, kissing
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins," said Hamlet. "When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is gone, their brains die, and they become ... soldiers.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, The Ghost Quartet
    tags: hamlet, scholars, soldiers
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    Homer
    “Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
    I have seen worse sights than this.”
    ― Homer, The Odyssey
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    Haruki Murakami
    “The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
    tags: blue, night, night-sky, painted, sky, strokes
    706 likes



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