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#1

“The more I know, the more I know I don't know.”
― Anonymous

#2

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

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#3

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#4

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

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#5

“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

tags: folly, preference, wisdom

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#6

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

tags: poetry, truth

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#7

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

tags: life, writing

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#8

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

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#9

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

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#10

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

4776 likes

#11

“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

tags: life

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#12

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#13

“A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
― Beryl Markham

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#14

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
― Henry Green

tags: highlight, revision, secrets, storytelling, style, writer, writers

1565 likes

#15

“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#16

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”
― Norman Mailer

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#17

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

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#18

“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
― Madeleine de Scudéry

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#19

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

tags: inspirational

2161 likes

#20

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

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#21

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words

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#22

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: imagination

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#23

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#24

“The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.”
― Beth Lisick

1488 likes

#25

“We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

1390 likes

#26

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8

3586 likes

#27

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational

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#28

“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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#29

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

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#30

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

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