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    Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
    “Yıldızlar birbiriyle konuşabilir, insan insanla konuşamaz.”
    ― Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü
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    Aldous Huxley
    “An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: attributed, intellectualism
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    Suzanne Collins
    “May the odds be ever in your favor!”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: benediction
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    Derek Landy
    “They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said.

    China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.”
    ― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
    tags: derek-landy, humor, sarcasm, skuldugerry-pleasant, wit
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    Catherine Fisher
    “Underground, the stars are legend.”
    ― Catherine Fisher, Incarceron
    tags: stars
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    Ai Yazawa
    “The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.”
    ― Ai Yazawa
    tags: dreams, nana, reality
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: hell, life
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    Derek Landy
    “It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -”
    ― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
    tags: derek, humor, landy, leaving, skuldugerry-pleasant, wanting
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    Catherine Fisher
    “He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.”
    ― Catherine Fisher, Sapphique
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    Derek Landy
    “That's a shame. I'm sure somebody, somewhere, cares.”
    ― Derek Landy, The Faceless Ones
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    Guillaume Apollinaire
    “How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
    ― Guillaume Apollinaire
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    Ray Bradbury
    “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: censorship
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    Joanna Russ
    “I'm not a girl. I'm a genius. ”
    ― Joanna Russ, The Female Man
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    Anne Rice
    “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
    ― Anne Rice
    tags: anne-rice, pandora
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    Monica Ali
    “The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
    ― Monica Ali, Brick Lane
    tags: life
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
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    Emily Brontë
    “Terror made me cruel . . .”
    ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    tags: ghosts, haunting, supernatural
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    James Jones
    “That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
    ― James Jones, From Here to Eternity
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    Marilynne Robinson
    “There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
    ― Marilynne Robinson, Home
    tags: faith, inspirational
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    John Banville
    “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
    ― John Banville, The Sea
    tags: memories, past
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    Amy Hempel
    “We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”
    ― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories
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    Penelope Fitzgerald
    “On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.”
    ― Penelope Fitzgerald
    tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-craft, writing-humor
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    Philip José Farmer
    “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
    ― Philip José Farmer
    tags: imagination, writing
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    Louis L'Amour
    “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
    ― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
    tags: books, inspirational, reading
    2759 likes

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    Susan Faludi
    “When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
    ― Susan Faludi
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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    Claud Cockburn
    “Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.”
    ― Claud Cockburn
    tags: fourth-estate, journalism
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    Emma Goldman
    “If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”
    ― Emma Goldman
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    Aldous Huxley
    “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant
    tags: memory
    3377 likes



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