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“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

tags: books, materialism, musicians, pure-awesome, technology

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“Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line.”
― Patti Smith, M Train

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#3

“The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat -- soft and persistent, underlying everything.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

tags: glbt, simon-spier

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#4

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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#5

“If women have failed to make “universal” art because we’re trapped within the “personal,” why not universalize the “personal” and make it the subject of our art?”
― Chris Kraus

tags: art, feminism

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#6

“Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.”
― Patti Smith

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#7

“Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.”
― Patti Smith

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#8

“Paths that cross will cross again.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

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#9

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

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#10

“A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It's supposed to be a door.”
― Fran Lebowitz

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#11

“I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once.”
― Fran Lebowitz

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#12

“Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

tags: assembly-line, history, human, machine, manufacturing, rebellion, workers

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#13

“If boys were always trying to get in girls’ pants, what did they want? What could the girls give them? Pee it seemed to me was an appropriate gift.”
― Eileen Myles, Chelsea Girls: A Novel

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#14

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

tags: vlog

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#15

“We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

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#16

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

tags: dogma, extremism, fanaticism, god, inhumanity, justification, religion, zealotry

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#17

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

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#18

“I know too much and not enough”
― Allen Ginsberg

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#19

“Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!”
― Allen Ginsberg

tags: beat, democracy, gay, poet, poetry, politics

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#20

“That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions had any meaning beyond thoughtless impulse. We were like conspiracy theorists, seeing portent and intention in every detail, wishing desperately that we mattered enough to be the object of planning and speculation. But they were just boys. Silly and young and straightforward; they weren't hiding anything.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

tags: girls, girls-and-boys, mistakes, teenage-love, teenagers

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#21

“If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously...I'm Kidding

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#22

“Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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#23

“Le véritable voyage de découverte ne consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais à avoir de nouveaux yeux. ”
― Marcel Proust

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#24

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake

tags: english-poet, inspirational, knowledge, willpower

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#25

“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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#26

“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#27

“Manuscripts don't burn.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

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#28

“Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

tags: sex-and-drugs-and-rock-and-roll

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#29

“I’m sure I could write endlessly about nothing. If only I had nothing to say.”
― Patti Smith, M Train: A Memoir

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#30

“Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: honesty, humanity, self-worth, social-mores

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