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    Michael Summers
    “I had a dream about you last night. We watched pornography together, but purely for the storyline.”
    ― Michael Summers, I Had a Dream About You
    tags: dreaming, dreams, funny, humor, life, relationships, sleep, sleeping
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    Joseph Mitchell
    “...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
    ― Joseph Mitchell
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    Booth Tarkington
    “Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.”
    ― Booth Tarkington
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore
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    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    ― Herman Melville
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    Walter Kirn
    “Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
    ― Walter Kirn, Mission to America
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    Dennis Lehane
    “There's something ugly about the flawless.”
    ― Dennis Lehane, Sacred
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    Paulo Coelho
    “No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    Anna Deavere Smith
    “Each person has a literature inside them.”
    ― Anna Deavere Smith
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    Fannie Flagg
    “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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    Shel Silverstein
    “Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree
    tags: self-sacrifice
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    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
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    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    ― Confucius
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    Graham Greene
    “Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
    ― Graham Greene
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    Michael Palin
    “You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
    ― Michael Palin
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    Thomas Keneally
    “Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
    ― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List
    tags: humanity, life
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    Caroline Gordon
    “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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    Richard Price
    “You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
    ― Richard Price
    tags: writing
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    Mario Puzo
    “I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
    ― Mario Puzo, The Godfather
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    Tracy Chevalier
    “I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
    ― Tracy Chevalier
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    Doris Lessing
    “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
    ― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
    tags: inspirational
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    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    ― Anne Tyler
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    William Shakespeare
    “By the pricking of my thumbs,
    Something wicked this way comes.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: foreshadowing, macbeth
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
    ― Dale Carnegie
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “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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    Walker Evans
    “Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
    ― Walker Evans
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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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    Astrid Lindgren
    “Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
    ― Astrid Lindgren
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    Christopher Paolini
    “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
    ― Christopher Paolini
    tags: books, reading
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    Ishmael Beah
    “Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
    ― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
    tags: nonfiction, pretty
    1522 likes



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