Quotes - Hani Mahdiyanti (mahdiyanti) (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) Showing 1-30 of 430

#1

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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#2

“Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.”
― William S. Burroughs

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#3

“Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”
― Martin Amis

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#4

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

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#5

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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#6

“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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#7

“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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#8

“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

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#9

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

tags: flattery, praise, words

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#10

“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

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#11

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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#12

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

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#13

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

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#14

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

tags: books, imagination, writing

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#15

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

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#16

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

[Meditations Divine and Moral]”
― Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet

tags: adversity, appreciation, hardship, inspirational, life, prosperity, seasons, spring, winter

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#17

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

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#18

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
― Tracy Chevalier

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#19

“and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Flush

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#20

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

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#21

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

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#22

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

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#23

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

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#24

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

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#25

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

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#26

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

tags: gender

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#27