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#1

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: love

9940 likes

#2

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom

7770 likes

#3

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

7807 likes

#4

“All who joy would win
Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.”
― George Gordon Byron, Don Juan

tags: don-juan, happiness, twin

656 likes

#5

“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
― Amy Tan

tags: life

2109 likes

#6

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

tags: poetry

1796 likes

#7

“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
― W.H. Auden

tags: book

290 likes

#8

“Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say”
― W.H. Auden

171 likes

#9

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

4326 likes

#10

“Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: advice, dark-night-of-the-soul, depression, practicality, problem

709 likes

#11

“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: humor, irony, optimism, pessimism, schizophrenia, universe

609 likes

#12

“Everything in life is just for a while.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

563 likes

#13

“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
― Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip

tags: loneliness, optimism, responsibility, time

1131 likes

#14

“It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

2905 likes

#15

“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: comfort, crying, tears

4315 likes

#16

“The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.”
― Lemony Snicket

1930 likes

#17

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

tags: books, writing

20722 likes

#18

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: labels

1186 likes

#19

“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

tags: love

1071 likes

#20

“You are your best thing”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

876 likes

#21

“There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”
― Toni Morrison

244 likes

#22

“A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.”
― Toni Morrison

151 likes

#23

“That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn

tags: imagination, magic

24 likes

#24

“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories

1046 likes

#25

“I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.”
― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Mandarins: Stories

189 likes

#26

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

tags: indulgence, virtue

1905 likes

#27

“You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

125 likes

#28

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

18377 likes

#29

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

5836 likes

#30

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

8462 likes

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