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  • #1
    Anton Chekhov
    “Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: living
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    J. Krishnamurti
    “do it or don't do it but get on with it...”
    ― J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
    tags: spiritual
    227 likes

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  • #3
    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
    8832 likes

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  • #4
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: inspirational
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Martha Graham
    “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
    ― Martha Graham
    tags: art, be-yourself, creativity, dance, dancing, expression, self-expression
    945 likes

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  • #7
    David Sedaris
    “After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.”
    ― David Sedaris , Me Talk Pretty One Day
    tags: art, conceptual-art, crystal-meth, drugs
    279 likes

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  • #8
    Stella Adler
    “life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
    ― Stella Adler
    tags: affirmation, art, creativity
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  • #9
    Théophile Gautier
    “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
    ― Théophile Gautier
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: inspirational
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  • #11
    Ray Bradbury
    “Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day..”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: hero
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  • #12
    Ray Bradbury
    “Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: writing
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  • #13
    Ray Bradbury
    “Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: buddhism, common-sense, life, zen
    1400 likes

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    Marisha Pessl
    “Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?!”
    ― Marisha Pessl
    tags: art, humor
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    Kate Atkinson
    “Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard.”
    ― Kate Atkinson
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  • #16
    Kate Atkinson
    “The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.”
    ― Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet
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  • #17
    Kate Atkinson
    “Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.”
    ― Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?
    tags: life
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    Kate Atkinson
    “I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.”
    ― Kate Atkinson, Emotionally Weird
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    Anton Chekhov
    “The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
    ― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
    tags: art, artists
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  • #20
    Anton Chekhov
    “Man is what he believes.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: belief
    329 likes

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  • #22
    Anton Chekhov
    “Even in Siberia there is happiness.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: chekhov, happiness, siberia
    183 likes

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  • #24
    Kate Atkinson
    “She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”
    ― Kate Atkinson, Case Histories
    tags: books, life
    348 likes

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  • #25
    Kate Atkinson
    “Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.”
    ― Kate Atkinson, Emotionally Weird
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  • #26
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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  • #27
    “I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.”
    ― Bill Bryson
    tags: tourism
    161 likes

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  • #28
    George Eliot
    “O may I join the choir invisible
    Of those immortal dead who live again
    In minds made better by their presence; live
    In pulses stirred to generosity,
    In deeds of daring rectitude...”
    ― George Eliot, O May I Join the Choir Invisible! And Other Favourite Poems
    tags: choir, dead, invisible, memory, minds, poetry, rectitude
    429 likes

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  • #29
    George Eliot
    “Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
    ― George Eliot, Mr Gilfil’s Love Story
    tags: animals, criticisms, true-friends
    234 likes

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  • #30
    George Eliot
    “Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”
    ― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
    tags: life, music, power-of-music
    385 likes

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    George Eliot
    “It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”
    ― George Eliot
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  • #32
    George Eliot
    “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: determination, initiative, positivity
    682 likes



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