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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Reader, I married him.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice
    tags: love, mr-darcy
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    Jasper Fforde
    “If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten
    tags: life, world
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    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    ― Daphne du Maurier
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    Rachel Carson
    “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
    ― Rachel Carson
    tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder
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    Edith Wharton
    “My little old dog
    a heart-beat
    at my feet”
    ― Edith Wharton
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    James Fenimore Cooper
    “History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
    ― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
    tags: criticism, history
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  • #9
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
    tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
    tags: claire-fraser, historical-fiction, romance, scotland, time-travel
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  • #11
    Stephen King
    “The past is obdurate.”
    ― Stephen King, 11/22/63
    tags: time-travel
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels
    tags: hypothetical-situation, imagination, time-travel
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  • #13
    “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
    ― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
    tags: science, time-travel
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    Richard Lovelace
    “Stone walls do not a prison make,
    Nor iron bars a cage;
    Minds innocent and quiet take
    That for an hermitage;
    If I have freedom in my love
    And in my soul am free,
    Angels alone, that soar above,
    Enjoy such liberty.”
    ― Richard Lovelace, To Althea, from Prison
    tags: freedom, love, prison
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Villette
    tags: inspirational
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Villette
    tags: death, emmanuel, lost-at-sea, love, missing, storm, villette, waiting
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    Joseph Conrad
    “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
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    David Sedaris
    “Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.”
    ― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
    tags: friends, humor
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    Maya Angelou
    “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: 1997, annie-clark-tanner-lecture
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    Julian Barnes
    “How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
    tags: biography, life, memory
    920 likes

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    Julian Barnes
    “History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
    tags: history
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    Julian Barnes
    “What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
    tags: memory, nostalgia
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    Julian Barnes
    “It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky and Other Poems
    tags: alice, carroll, jabberwock, jabberwocky, lewis, wonderland
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  • #26
    “Deadlines are a great antidote to insecurity.”
    ― Tina Brown, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992
    tags: deadlines, editors, magazines, writing, writing-process
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  • #27
    Ilya Kaminsky
    “At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
    And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”
    ― Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
    tags: allow, echo, god
    251 likes



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