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#1

“I don't want realism. I want magic!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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#3

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#4

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#5

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#6

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

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#7

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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#8

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: destiny

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#9

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

tags: insults, shakespeare

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#10

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: ferocity

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#11

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: as-you-like-it, celia, nature, poetry

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#12

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

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#13

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: paper-towns

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#14

“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: john-green, looking-for-alaska

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#15

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: distance, time

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#16

“How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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#17

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: identity

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#18

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: childhood, laughter, love, oblivious

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#19

“My heart is so tired”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#20

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

tags: beauty, life

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#21

“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

tags: hope, inspirational, life, philosophy

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#22

“I think she ate a salad and some soup.
And loneliness.
She ate that, too. ”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

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#23

“Then his eyes focus on something over my shoulder, and he starts walking. I turn to see Uriah jogging from the elevator bank. He is grinning.
“Heard a rumor you were a dirty traitor,” Uriah says.
“Yeah, whatever,” says Zeke.
They collide in an embrace that looks almost painful to me, slapping each other’s backs and laughing with their fists clasped between them.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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#24

“Everything seems excessive, now, and too intense, too important.”
― Judith Guest, Ordinary People

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#25

“Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

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#26

“You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

tags: dreamers, dreaming

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#27

“In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

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#28

“There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin."

--Charlie Gordan”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: begin, doors, impatient

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#29

“Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
...On the other hand, he SAID it.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

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#30

“MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure? I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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