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#1

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

tags: life, writing

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#2

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

3761 likes

#3

“Nobody said not to go.”
― Emily Hahn

946 likes

#4

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

1439 likes

#5

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: philosophy, science

8624 likes

#6

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

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#7

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

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#8

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: books, inspirational, on-writing, reading

2840 likes

#9

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

2117 likes

#10

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

3948 likes

#11

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

2150 likes

#12

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

tags: acceptance, friendship

5092 likes

#13

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

tags: inspirational

1872 likes

#14

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

2269 likes

#15

“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

1784 likes

#16

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

2523 likes

#17

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

1409 likes

#18

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery

3950 likes

#19

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
― John Updike

tags: to-keep-up-ur-dreams-_

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#20

“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

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#21

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
― Jane Goodall

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#22

“The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
― Tom Clancy

tags: read

1447 likes

#23

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

2029 likes

#24

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

tags: ideas

2085 likes

#25

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: writing-advice

4130 likes

#26

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: misattributed-kurt-cobain

3313 likes

#27

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

3234 likes

#28

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

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#29

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: reading

4491 likes

#30

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: education, educational, inspirational, inspiring, learning, mentoring

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