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#1

“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
― N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

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#2

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

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#3

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

tags: life-s-journey, poetry-quotes, solitude

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#4

“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

tags: fate

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#5

“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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#6

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: imagination

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#7

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

tags: logic, love

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#8

“Patience is a conquering virtue.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

tags: canterbury-tales, chaucer, franklin-s-tale, patience

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#9

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

tags: ideas

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#10

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

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#11

“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

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#12

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

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#13

“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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#14

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

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#15

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

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#16

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

tags: writing

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#17

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

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#18

“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

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#19

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: reading

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#20

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

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

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#21

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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#22

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

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#23

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

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#24

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

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#25

“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

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#26

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books-reading

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#27

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

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#28

“Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”
― Louise Erdrich

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#29

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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#30

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

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