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#1

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

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#2

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

4795 likes

#3

“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil

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#4

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

4869 likes

#5

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

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#6

“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
― Javier Marías

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#7

“The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
― Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

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#8

“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

tags: pain

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#9

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

8697 likes

#10

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

5036 likes

#11

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading

15814 likes

#12

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: happiness, pride

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#13

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: change, life, parting, romantics

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#14

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

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#15

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

5300 likes

#16

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

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#17

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

9893 likes

#18

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

tags: writing

2552 likes

#19

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#20

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: heart, infidelity, relationships, seasons, summer

3234 likes

#21

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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#22

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#23

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: existence, truth

4913 likes

#24

“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

1756 likes

#25

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11238 likes

#26

“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

4984 likes

#27

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

6961 likes

#28

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: inspiration

5804 likes

#29

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: happiness, inspiration, life

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#30

“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: career, inspiration, life

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