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#1

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: friends, friendship

2413 likes

#2

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

tags: acceptance, friendship

5108 likes

#3

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

153119 likes

#4

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

136272 likes

#5

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
― Miranda July, It Chooses You

1812 likes

#6

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

1410 likes

#7

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

1738 likes

#8

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

2907 likes

#9

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: truth

11998 likes

#10

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

3083 likes

#11

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: reading

4560 likes

#12

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

1612 likes

#13

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

3691 likes

#14

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

tags: inspirational

2242 likes

#15

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

1210 likes

#16

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: life

2913 likes

#17

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

5894 likes

#18

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

5420 likes

#19

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

1460 likes

#20

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
― Jack London, White Fang

1548 likes

#21

“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

3374 likes

#22

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

5115 likes

#23

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

2732 likes

#24

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: power-of-words

2677 likes

#25

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
― D.H. Lawrence

tags: inspirational

1561 likes

#26

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

2487 likes

#27

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
― Sherwood Anderson

1439 likes

#28

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

3587 likes

#29

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

4349 likes

#30

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression

6894 likes

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