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    Kiran Desai
    “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
    ― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
    tags: change, past, present
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
    tags: broken-heart, d-h-lawrence, love, pomegranate
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    Margaret Landon
    “She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
    ― Margaret Landon
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    Michael Ondaatje
    “She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
    ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
    tags: words
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    Sherwood Anderson
    “Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
    ― Sherwood Anderson
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    William H. Armstrong
    “One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
    ― William H. Armstrong
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    Anne Bradstreet
    “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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    Anna Deavere Smith
    “Each person has a literature inside them.”
    ― Anna Deavere Smith
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    Jude Deveraux
    “Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
    ― Jude Deveraux
    tags: an-angel-for-emily, emily-todd
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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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    Eugene Field
    “No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
    ― Eugene Field
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    W.H. Auden
    “We must love one another or die”
    ― W.H. Auden
    tags: love
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    Janet Frame
    “There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
    ― Janet Frame
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    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    “Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
    ― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan
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    Will Shortz
    “As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
    ― Will Shortz
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    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    ― Annie Proulx
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    Ogden Nash
    “Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
    And that's what parents were created for.”
    ― Ogden Nash
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    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    ― Confucius
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    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
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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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    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
    tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen
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    Paul Simon
    “It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
    ― Paul Simon
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    Katherine Mansfield
    “The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
    ― Katherine Mansfield
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    Kathleen Winsor
    “Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
    ― Kathleen Winsor
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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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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “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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    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    ― Anne Tyler
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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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    Zadie Smith
    “The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
    ― Zadie Smith
    tags: future, grammar, language, past
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  • #30
    “To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
    ― Geoffrey Wolff
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