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#1

“In some ways the goals of teaching and writing are the same. You hope to connect to someone else, to make them care about what you care about. So that the things which matter, the things that matter to you, matter to them.”
― P.F. Kluge, Gone Tomorrow

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#2

“You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

tags: inspirational-life

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#3

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#4

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: humor, love, romantic, women

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#5

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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#6

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

tags: love, mr-darcy

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#7

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

tags: friends, humor, people

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#8

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife

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#9

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen

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#10

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower

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#11

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: love, romance

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#12

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

tags: romance

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#13

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#14

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: james-joyce, ulysses

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#15

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: history, truth

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#16

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

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#17

“Love loves to love love.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#18

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#19

“Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.”
― James Joyce

tags: battles, irish, mind

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#20

“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

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#21

“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: ireland, irish, lyrical, sea

370 likes

#22

“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

tags: age, passion

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#23

“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.”
― James Joyce

tags: humor, irish, writing

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#24

“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#25

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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