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    Maxine Hong Kingston
    “In a time of destruction, create something.”
    ― Maxine Hong Kingston
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, new-year
    4703 likes

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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: inspiration
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    Dorothy Parker
    “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.”
    ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
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    A.A. Milne
    “It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
    "So it is."
    "And freezing."
    "Is it?"
    "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: humor, optimism
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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
    ― Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    tags: bravery, fear, perseverence, strength
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: hate, love
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “I write to discover what I know.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
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  • #10
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
    tags: inspirational, life
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    John Updike
    “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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    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “Patience is a conquering virtue.”
    ― Geoffrey Chaucer
    tags: canterbury-tales, chaucer, franklin-s-tale, patience
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    Edward P. Jones
    “We are all worthy of one another.”
    ― Edward P. Jones, The Known World
    tags: love, worthiness
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    Hilary Mantel
    “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: book, books, fiction, read, reading, stories, story
    2125 likes

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    Doris Lessing
    “There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
    ― Doris May Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, storytelling, truth, truth-telling
    752 likes

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    Susan Faludi
    “When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
    ― Susan Faludi
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    Josephine Tey
    “The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.”
    ― Josephine Tey, The Franchise Affair
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series
    tags: quoted-by-wally-lamb
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    Tillie Olsen
    “It is a long Baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion and in pain than to live untouched. Yet how will you sustain?”
    ― Tillie Olsen
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    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
    tags: love
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    H.G. Wells
    “The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: truth
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    Alice Walker
    “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
    ― alice walker, The Color Purple
    tags: color, god, purple, religion
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    Samuel Beckett
    “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
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  • #24
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    Paul Collier
    “Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.”
    ― Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
    tags: democracy, elections, power
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    Will Lavender
    “What if you were always stuck in one place, your mind spinning and unable to go forward like tires clenched in mud, because the answers wouldn't reveal themselves to you?”
    ― Will Lavender, Obedience
    tags: answers, mind, stuck
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  • #28
    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: books, feminist, reading
    4149 likes

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  • #29
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32156 likes

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  • #30
    Ray Bradbury
    “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: censorship
    2654 likes



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