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    Lemony Snicket
    “I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril
    tags: humor
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Shel Silverstein
    “All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
    Layin' In The Sun,
    Talkin' 'Bout The Things
    They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...
    But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
    All Ran Away And Hid
    From One Little Did.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: inspirational
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    Susan Sontag
    “My library is an archive of longings.”
    ― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
    tags: books, library, longing
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    Lillian Hellman
    “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
    ― Lillian Hellman
    tags: integrity
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    Sylvia Townsend Warner
    “It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
    ― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes
    tags: aging, death-and-dying
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    Louis Adamic
    “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
    ― Louis Adamic
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    Marguerite Duras
    “Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
    ― Marguerite Duras
    tags: mothers
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    Eudora Welty
    “All serious daring starts from within.”
    ― Eudora Welty, On Writing
    tags: daring
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    Rafael Sabatini
    “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
    ― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
    tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines
    2131 likes

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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    6679 likes

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    Bram Stoker
    “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
    ― Bram Stoker
    tags: dracula
    2411 likes

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    William Strunk Jr.
    “Omit needless words.”
    ― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly
    tags: writing-words
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    O. Henry
    “Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
    ― O. Henry
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    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
    ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    tags: beauty, canyons, carvings, nature, perseverance, suffering, windstorms
    1563 likes

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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: heartache, love
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    David Henry Hwang
    “I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
    ― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
    tags: happiness
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    Will Shortz
    “As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
    ― Will Shortz
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree
    tags: self-sacrifice
    1963 likes

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    James Herriot
    “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
    ― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories
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    Will Rogers
    “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational
    3589 likes

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    Leonard Woolf
    “Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
    ― Leonard Woolf
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    Stan Lee
    “Face front, true believers!”
    ― Stan Lee
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    Thomas Paine
    “These are the times that try men's souls.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
    tags: adversity, american-revolution, trials
    1620 likes

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    Anne Brontë
    “It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
    ― Anne Brontë
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    Stendhal
    “One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
    ― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal
    tags: community
    1568 likes



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