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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment as well as the prison.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“أصعب جزء في عالم الكتابة أنك لا تستطيع أن تقنع " أباك" أنك لست المعني دائما بما
تكتب !!”
― أسماء حسين, هوامش موسمية

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

“We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
― George Moore

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

“Be — don't try to become”
― Osho

“الخِلاَفْ الطَويل يَعْنِي : أنّ كِلاَ الطّرَفينْ عَلَىْ خَطَأ !!”
― فولتير

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

“لستُ من أتباع أي دين، ولا أشعر بالحاجة لأن أصبح كذلك.
وموقفي من هذه المسألة غير مريح لا سيما وأنني لا أشعر بنفسي ملحدًا كذلك. لا أستطيع أن أؤمن بأن السماء فارغة، وبأنه لا يوجد بعد الموت سوى العدم. فماذا يوجد وراء ذلك؟ لا أدري. هل يوجد شيء ما؟ لا علم لي. أرجو ذلك، إنما لا أعرف؛ وأشعر بالريبة إزاء من يدعون المعرفة، سواء كانت أشكال يقينهم دينية أم ملحدة.
إنني في منزلة بين الإيمان وعدم الإيمان مثلما أنا في منزلة بين وطنين، ألاطف هذا وألاطف ذاك، ولا أنتمي لأي منهما. لا أشعر بنفسي غير مؤمن إلا حين أستمع إلى عظة رجل دين؛ ففي كل عظة، وكل إشارة إلى كتاب مقدس، يتمرد عقلي، ويتشتت انتباهي، وتتمتم شفتاي لعنات. غير أني أرتعش في أعماقي حين أحضر مأتمًا علمانيًا، وتتملكني الرغبة بدندنة تراتيل سريانية، أو بيزنطية، أو حتى ترتيلة القربان المقدس القديمة التي يقال إنها من تأليف توما الأكويني.
ذلك هو درب التيه الذي أسلكه في مجال الدين. وبالطبع، أسير فيه وحيدًا، بدون أن أتبع أحدًا، وبدون أن أدعو أحدًا لأن يتبعني.”
― أمين معلوف, التائهون

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“هناك من لا يستطيع أن يلهو إلا وهو في قطيع ..البطل الحقيقي يلهو وحيدا”
― شارل بودلير

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Pest

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

“ اكتب يا هيبا ، فمن يكتب لن يموت أبداً”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

“what if you were a doctor and had a patient who demanded that you stop all the silly hand-washing in preparation for surgery because it was taking too much time? 2 Clearly the patient is the boss; and yet the doctor should absolutely refuse to comply. Why? Because the doctor knows more than the patient about the risks of disease and infection. It would be unprofessional (never mind criminal) for the doctor to comply with the patient. So too it is unprofessional for programmers to bend to the will of managers who don’t understand the risks of making messes.”
― Anonymous

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.”
― Annie Dillard

“I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
― Nellie Bly

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus