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    Amy Tan
    “If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
    ― Amy Tan
    tags: life
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Jane Austen
    “It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
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    Stephen King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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    “I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
    ― James Michener
    tags: writing
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    John Steinbeck
    “But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel
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    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: a-game-of-thrones, a-song-of-ice-and-fire, coldness, fear, forest, george-r-r-martin, north, snow, the-wall, trees, wind, winter
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    Robert Frost
    “Some say the world will end in fire,
    Some say in ice.
    From what I've tasted of desire,
    I hold with those who favor fire.
    But if it had to perish twice
    I think I know enough of hate
    To say that for destruction ice
    Is also great
    And would suffice.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: poetry
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    Robert Frost
    “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: education
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    Robert Frost
    “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: choice, consequence, individuality, inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
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    Washington Irving
    “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
    ― Washington Irving
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    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, inspirational
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    John Steinbeck
    “It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
    ― John Steinbeck, شرق بهشت
    tags: death
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    Marcel Proust
    “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
    ― Marcel Proust
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    Leonard Cohen
    “There is a crack in everything.
    That's how the light gets in.”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
    tags: hope, light
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art, inspirational
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Why is the measure of love loss?”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
    tags: loss, love
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    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Jane Austen
    “There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Jane Austen
    “Till this moment I never knew myself.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Victor Hugo
    “Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: flight, philosophical
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “What should I be
    but just what I am?”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
    46545 likes



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