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#1

“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”
― Owen Wister, The Virginian

tags: humorous-quotes, writers-and-writing, writers-on-writing, writers-quotes

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#2

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

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#3

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
― Ellen Goodman

tags: forgiveness, gratefulness, love

1815 likes

#4

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

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#5

“Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”
― William Allingham

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#6

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
― Ben Okri

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#7

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

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#8

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair, life

6534 likes

#9

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

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#10

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

13160 likes

#11

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

9219 likes

#12

“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

1756 likes

#13

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

tags: family, humor, language, satire, simpsons, social-commentary

2228 likes

#14

“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

1670 likes

#15

“Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
― judy blume

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#16

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

tags: inspirational

3685 likes

#17

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

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#18

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

tags: death

1615 likes

#19

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: truth

2881 likes

#20

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: books, literature, reading

3535 likes

#21

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

tags: inspirational

2084 likes

#22

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: atlas, shrugged

3749 likes

#23

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

4764 likes

#24

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars

11060 likes

#25

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

2524 likes

#26

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

tags: life, resilience, ruins, truth

1803 likes

#27

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment

4540 likes

#28

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

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#29

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

128557 likes

#30

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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