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#1

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: wish

4554 likes

#2

“Actually, since I'm gay I think I should count for two guys instead of just one. I mean, in me you get the male point of view and you don't have to worry about me wanting to touch your boobies.”
― P.C. Cast, Marked

tags: chauvinism, damien, house-of-night, marked

640 likes

#3

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

13157 likes

#4

“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

23095 likes

#5

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry

11827 likes

#6

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love

9447 likes

#7

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James A. Baldwin

tags: love

5442 likes

#8

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

802 likes

#9

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
― James Michener

tags: writing

1338 likes

#10

“The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.”
― Walter Mosley

tags: writing

167 likes

#11

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age, discretion, secret, trust, truth, woman

1166 likes

#12

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: cynical, life, truth

3273 likes

#13

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

tags: philosophy

14974 likes

#14

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

42031 likes

#15

“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: philosophy

1430 likes

#16

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

tags: music, philosophy, revelation, wisdom

2574 likes

#17

“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.”
― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

tags: philosophy, science

99 likes

#18

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

1206 likes

#19

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
― Agatha Christie

tags: writing

610 likes

#20

“Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

tags: self

502 likes

#21

“Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.”
― Drew Goodman

tags: writing

39 likes

#22

“People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.”
― Henri Nouwen

tags: writing

67 likes

#23

“The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it. ”
― Bill Barich

tags: writing

14 likes

#24

“The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.”
― Fran Lebowitz

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#25

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
― Charles Péguy, Basic Verities, Prose, and Poetry

tags: words, writing

115 likes

#26

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

4558 likes

#27

“You don’t ever expect to fall in love with words. No one can anticipate such a thing. But should it happen, God help you, because it will seem that no existent man is enough; none can equal what you have perfected in your mind.”
― Jennifer DeLucy, A Valentine Anthology

20 likes

#28

“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”
― P.C. Cast, Betrayed

tags: inspirational

3062 likes

#29

“Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.”
― Kahlil Gibran

328 likes

#30

“No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.”
― Karen Marie Moning

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