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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Aberjhani
    “Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.”
    ― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
    tags: angel-poems, angels, famous-quotes-from-classic-books, grace, haiku, haikus, healing, love, lovers, philosophy, poets-of-the-angels, rebirth, recovery, sorrow, spiritual-empowerment, spirituality, valentine-love, valentine-s-day, world-suicide-prevention-day
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
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    Lao Tzu
    “Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: fear, strength
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    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
    ― Ernest Benn
    tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems
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    Franz Kafka
    “We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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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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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

    So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: america, books, politics
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    Mark Twain
    “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: morals
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    ― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    tags: life
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    Robert Frost
    “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: new-england-wisdom
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    Robert Frost
    “Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: prayer
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
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    Matthew Pearl
    “He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.”
    ― Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club
    tags: poetic, tragic
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    Hazrat Inayat Khan
    “Moth: I gave you my life.

    Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.”
    ― Hazrat Inayat Khan
    tags: fate, poetry, tragedy
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    Jim Morrison
    “You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: strength
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: hurt, pain, perfect, truthful
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: secrets
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    Katherine Anne Porter
    “The past is never where you think you left it.”
    ― Katherine Anne Porter
    tags: past
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    John Steinbeck
    “What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: human, monster, sex, sexuality
    64 likes



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