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    Mark Twain
    “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: appreciation, companionship, joy
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    N. Scott Momaday
    “The events of one’s life take place, take place. How often have I used this expression, and how often have I stopped to think about what it means? Events do indeed take place, they have meaning in relation to things around them.”
    ― N. Scott Momaday, The Names
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    Dessa
    “In high school, the hardest years, she salted her bath water.”
    ― Dessa, Spiral Bound
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    Laini Taylor
    “Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times
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  • #5
    Bill Watterson
    “I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
    tags: humore
    384 likes

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  • #6
    Stephenie Meyer
    “Fall down again, Bella?'
    No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: arrogance, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, men, self-importance, women
    1825 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
    We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: freedom, stories
    1787 likes

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  • #9
    Pablo Neruda
    “I want
    To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love
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  • #10
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: science-fiction
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    Bill Watterson
    “Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am? ”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: a Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
    tags: humor
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    David Sedaris
    “Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can't kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up some times, but, bitch, nobody kills the motherfucking Rooster. You know what I'm saying?”
    ― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
    tags: family, perseverance, rooster, self-preservation
    448 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: shatter, vulnerable
    125 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
    41000 likes

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  • #16
    Bill Watterson
    “HOBBES:
    If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: life
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    David Sedaris
    “Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!”
    ― David Sedaris , Me Talk Pretty One Day
    tags: humor, nationalism
    417 likes

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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
    1665 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: high-school, terror
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  • #21
    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window
    tags: humor-cats-allergies
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: books, fiction, literature, reading, words
    416 likes

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  • #23
    Stephen King
    “That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
    ― Stephen King, The Stand
    tags: god, humor
    2035 likes

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  • #25
    Stephen King
    “Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: art-on-writing
    558 likes

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    Stephen King
    “When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”
    ― Stephen King
    728 likes

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    Dessa
    “My mind, which I used to consider a great ally, has turned into a sparrow on a leash.”
    ― Dessa, Spiral Bound
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    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck
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    Cath Crowley
    “... I ask, 'Do you think Dylan's telling the truth?'
    Daisy checks her face in a little mirror, then hands it to Jazz. 'You want me to find out?'
    'Let's not ruin it by calling them liars.'
    '...I won't ruin it. I've got this special way of getting the truth out of Dylan.'
    'How?' I ask.
    'I kick him in the balls.'
    'That's pretty special.”
    ― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
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  • #30
    Stephen King
    “You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    468 likes

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  • #31
    Stephen King
    “Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    614 likes



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