Quotes - Karen (mskmgill) Showing 1-29 of 29

#1

“Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks...”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: summer, sunshine, wine, winter

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#2

“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

tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance

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#3

“I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
― Diana Nyad

1145 likes

#4

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

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#5

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

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#6

“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

2305 likes

#7

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

tags: angels, demons

3792 likes

#8

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

3271 likes

#9

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

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#10

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: misattributed-kurt-cobain

3319 likes

#11

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

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#13

“A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: book, life, star

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#14

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

4325 likes

#15

“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro

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#16

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

tags: philosophy

3595 likes

#17

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

4493 likes

#18

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

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#19

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

tags: love

2185 likes

#20

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

tags: inspirational

3685 likes

#21

“If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.”
― Iris Johansen, Countdown

1263 likes

#22

“Once you’ve held a book and really loved it, you forever remember the feel of it, its specific weight, the way it sits in your hand.”
― Erika Swyler, The Book of Speculation

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#23

“I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
― William Trevor

1346 likes

#24

“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
― Edward Bulwer Lytton

tags: music, power-of-music

1590 likes

#25

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

1879 likes

#26

“When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
― Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

tags: lost-love, love

1776 likes

#27

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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