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#1

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

tags: imagination

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#2

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

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#3

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

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#4

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

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#5

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

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#6

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

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#7

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

tags: life, writing

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#8

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

tags: imagination, writing

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#9

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

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#10

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

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#11

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

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#12

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#13

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#14

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

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#15

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

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#16

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: death, fear, life

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#17

“Punctuation, is? fun!”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: humor, punctuation

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#18

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

tags: logic, love

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#19

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

tags: courage, determination, hope, risk

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#20

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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#21

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

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#22

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

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#24

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

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#25

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

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