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#1

“If we cannot be fearless, let us be fleet.”
― Linda Robinson, Chantepleure

#2

“Good stories seem to just work, but they are actually made to work by the artfully concealed application of a shitload of time.”
― Steven Hall, Maxwell's Demon: A Novel

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#3

“Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.”
― Truman Capote

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#4

“No fleeting moment can bear the scrutiny that a lone voyager is able to give it.”
― Ben McGrath, Riverman: An American Odyssey

tags: riverman

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#5

“The Gracehoper was always jigging ajog, hoppy on akkant of his joyicity.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

tags: joyicity

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#6

“I discovered there was something else I had never considered-Plan C- don't turn to mush, don't leave, stay and resist. Tango's entire point.”
― Eve Babitz, Black Swans

tags: dance, inspirational, life-and-living-and-living

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#7

“Nobody learns anything by doing everything right.”
― Linda Robinson, Chantepleure

tags: learn-by-mistakes

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#8

“Crazy is a place," said Janos. "You go, you come back.”
― Carol O'Connell, Crime School

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#9

“I would suggest that you remember she is old because some of her enemies are dead.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Inheritor

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#10

“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”
― Nikki Giovanni

tags: writer, writer-quotes, writing

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#11

“Because if you didn’t speak your truth, there was always something that would speak it for you that much louder.”
― Pat Cadigan, Synners

tags: philosophy

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#12

“Do not be daunted by the insurmountability of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work but neither are you free to abandon it.”
― Talmud Selections English, Hebraic Literature: Translations From the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala

tags: inspirational

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#13

“It has taken me a very long time, a very long time to give myself permission to fly and breathe fire.”
― Siri Hustvedt

tags: harriet-burden

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#14

“For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

tags: embodiment, humanity, inspirational, self

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#15

“A 65 year old woman questioning herself is no different than a 15 year old girl launching herself.”
― Linda Robinson

tags: awareness, feminosity, wisdom, women

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#18

“Life lessons cannot be applied topically.”
― Linda Robinson

tags: learning, life-lessons

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#20

“An old soul is nothing but a very slow learner.”
― James Martin Peebles

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#21

“Life, we can now say, is getting something to happen against the odds, and remembering how to do it.”
― Ursula Goodenough, The Sacred Depths of Nature

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#22

“Then I will speak upon the ashes.”
― Sojourner Truth

tags: abolition, freedom, women-s-rights

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#23

“The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.”
― Bertrand Russell

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#24

“Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.”
― Walt Kelly

tags: cartoonist, humanist

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#25

“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#27

“A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.”
― Poul Anderson, Harvest of Stars

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#28

“Society is no place to keep humans.”
― Linda Robinson

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#29

“The true mark of greatness is not stridency but magnanimity.”
― J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power

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#30

“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.”
― An Wang

tags: common-sense, genius, success

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#31

“I venture to guess that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
― Adlai E. Steveson

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#32

“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle

tags: arts

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#33

“Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness

tags: woman, women

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#34

“You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”
― Abbie Hoffman

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