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#1

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#2

“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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#4

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151615 likes

#5

“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle

1238 likes

#6

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: personal-responsibility, self-empowerment

775 likes

#7

“Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called.  ”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

821 likes

#8

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love

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#9

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
― John Steinbeck

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#10

“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
― E.B. White

tags: writing

856 likes

#11

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

tags: writing

1359 likes

#12

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”
― Peter De Vries

tags: humor, writing

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#13

“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
― Cornelia Funke

tags: books, character, cornelia-funke, existentialism, words, writers, writing

1187 likes

#14

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: writing

938 likes

#15

“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
― Isaac Asimov

953 likes

#16

“I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. ”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: writing

379 likes

#17

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

9633 likes

#18

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

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#19

“Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.”
― Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty

tags: friendship, imagination, tea, writing

554 likes

#20

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
― Graham Greene, Ways of Escape

tags: escape, life, therapy, writing

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