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#1

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings

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#2

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness

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#3

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#4

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#5

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: books, inspirational, on-writing, reading

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#6

“there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures.”
― Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song

tags: beauty, scotland

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#7

“The head is too wise. The heart is all fire.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

tags: gansey, gwenllian, the-raven-cycle, the-raven-king

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#8

“I don't care to be pretty," Blue shot back hotly, "I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

tags: blue, inspire, pretty, the-raven-cycle

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#9

“We were like two performers in a play, but we were divided, we were not acting with one another. We had to endure it alone, we had to put up this show, this miserable, sham performance for the sake of all these people I did not know and did not want to see again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: daphne-du-maurier, mrs-de-winter, rebecca, theatre

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#10

“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, george-orwell, politics, socialism, totalitarianism

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#11

“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, george-orwell, man

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#12

“So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

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#13

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#14

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#15

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#16

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: history, truth

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#17

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: giving, love

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#18

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow

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