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    Amy Tan
    “If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
    ― Amy Tan
    tags: life
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “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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    Jacqueline Carey
    “All knowledge is worth having.”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
    tags: inspiration, life, philosophy
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen
    tags: awake, aware, dream, ears, self
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Mercy
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.”
    ― Jacqueline Carey
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
    tags: battle, loyalty, war
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
    tags: truth
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
    tags: bitterness, fate, fear, life
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar
    tags: thelesis-de-mornay
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. ”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen
    tags: love
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
    tags: happiness, sorrow
    85 likes

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    Pierre Boulle
    “There's always some further action to take.”
    ― Pierre Boulle
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    Franz Kafka
    “I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: writing
    2834 likes

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    Lori Lesko
    “The good news about self publishing is you get to do everything yourself. The bad news about self publishing is you get to do everything yourself.”
    ― Lori Lesko
    tags: humor, self-publishing, writing
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    Lena Dunham
    “I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.”
    ― Lena Dunham
    tags: writing
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    “Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
    ― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
    tags: love
    1399 likes

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    “A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.”
    ― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
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    “She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost”
    ― Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal
    tags: loners, outsiders, school, teenage-girls, teenagers
    65 likes

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    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
    6463 likes

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    Ingmar Bergman
    “Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
    ― Ingmar Bergman
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
    tags: haunted
    72 likes

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    Roald Dahl
    “And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
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    Stephen King
    “There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: great-writing, on-writing, stories, storytelling
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    Alan Alda
    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    ― Alan Alda
    tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind
    2613 likes

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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
    “Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
    ― Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Bill Watterson
    “Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: stories
    201 likes



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