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#1

“Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: courage, moving-forward, perseverance

952 likes

#2

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

2496 likes

#3

“Love is a noun as well as a verb, a treacherous construct.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

tags: love-hurts, love-quotes

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#4

“Silence—people are afraid of it—they feel the need to make small talk, anything, just to break the stillness. I don’t feel any such need. To me, silence brings about peace and certitude.”
― Henry Martin, Escaping Barcelona

19 likes

#5

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

2518 likes

#6

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

1407 likes

#7

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: funny

6894 likes

#8

“If I was half the writer that you are, I would be a three foot poet.”
― Wayne Barrett

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#9

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

tags: books, inspirational, reading

2759 likes

#10

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

tags: brain, mind

3732 likes

#11

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
― Jane Goodall

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#12

“High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

tags: high-school

455 likes

#13

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23095 likes

#14

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: imagination

2300 likes

#15

“Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life”
― D. Aswini, Saffron - The Blood Swan

tags: death, fantasy, hope, truth

262 likes

#16

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

tags: diamond, soul

1815 likes

#17

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

37985 likes

#18

“Life is a long road with lots of junctions and every time you chose to go one way, you may just have easily have gone the other. We don't make choices so much as choices are made like a new fashion we slip into without realising.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

tags: choices, choices-and-consequences

2 likes

#20

“Eleven years ago he retired from life. Death was never really his style.”
― Jim Buckner, De Novo Syndrome

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#21

“You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: chains, choices

661 likes

#22

“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

732 likes

#23

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

tags: reading, words, writing

2718 likes

#24

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression

6692 likes

#25

“Christmas was almost three months in the rearview mirror, and there was something awful about Christmas music when it was nearly summer. It was like a clown in the rain, with his makeup running.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

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#26

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

1976 likes

#27

“You must write as if each word is a precious drop of blood, or a tear to be saved in a glass phial.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

tags: writing, writing-process

2 likes

#28

“My kind has become the the centerpiece for horror stories and legends across the globe, and society has labeled the vampire as a monster, but the creature peering from beneath the fog misted top hat that night was a monster that would surpass the wildest imaginations of the most skilled story tellers. And he was a human being.”
― Wayne Barrett, Feather and Bone

3 likes

#29

“A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

204 likes

#30

“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

659 likes

#31

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

tags: books, reading, rights

6987 likes

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