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“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
― Stephen King

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box

“I loved you head over handles
like my first bicycle accident —
before the mouthful of gravel and blood,
I swore we were flying.”
― Sierra Demulder

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
― Fernando Pessoa

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“If I don't wield the sword,
I can't protect you.

If I keep wielding the sword,
I can't embrace you.
-Ichigo Kurosaki”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 05

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”
― Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752

“Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.”
― Lord Chesterfield

“The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary.”
― Lord Chesterfield

“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“Those who do not know what love is
likens it to beauty
Those who claim to know what love is
likens it to ugliness
-Gin Ichimaru”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 20

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”
― Ovid

“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”
― Ovid

“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
― Ovid

“What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.”
― Ovid

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
― Albert Einstein

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“When you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. But other strategies with dead horses [include] the following: buying a stronger whip; changing riders; saying things like 'this is the way we've always ridden this horse'; ... and, finally, harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed." Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson”
― Mark Rippetoe, Strong Enough? Thoughts from Thirty Years of Barbell Training