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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: love, romance
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    “Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.”
    ― Linda Howard, Kill and Tell
    tags: death
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    Janet Evanovich
    “Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”
    ― Janet Evanovich
    tags: birthday, cake, life, novels, romance
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    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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  • #6
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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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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  • #16
    Louis Armstrong
    “The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.”
    ― Louis Armstrong
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    Louis Armstrong
    “All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
    ― Louis Armstrong
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    John Wayne
    “Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”
    ― John Wayne
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    John Wayne
    “My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.”
    ― John Wayne
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    John Wayne
    “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
    ― John Wayne
    tags: bravery, courage
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    John Muir
    “The mountains are calling and I must go.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: nature
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    John Muir
    “The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.”
    ― John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf: The American Naturalist's 1867 Journey Through the Post-War South
    tags: facts, presumption, superstition, universe
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    John Muir
    “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
    ― John Muir, Our National Parks
    tags: hiking, mountains, nature, wilderness
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    John Muir
    “Going to the mountains is going home.”
    ― John Muir
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    John Muir
    “Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.”
    ― John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
    tags: humanity, nature
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    John Muir
    “John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe

    [Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal]”
    ― John Muir
    tags: cosmopolitan, naturalist, science, unity
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    Georgia O'Keeffe
    “I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
    ― Georgia O'Keefe
    tags: art, criticism, inspirational
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    Georgia O'Keeffe
    “One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.”
    ― Georgia O'Keeffe
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    Margaret Wise Brown
    “Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
    ― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon
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    Eric Carle
    “We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
    ― Eric Carle
    1568 likes



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