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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    “Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
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    Adam Santo
    “I like honesty more than my ego does.”
    ― Adam Santo, Temperature: Dead and Rising
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: bad-memory, forgiveness, happiness, memory
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    Adam Santo
    “Before you can write a single sentence, you must first create an entire world to support it.”
    ― Adam Santo, Temperature: Dead + Rising
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    Adam Santo
    “Writing can be a splendid headache. Fun when words spill forth like a raging river and a catastrophic, hair-pulling experience when they won't.”
    ― Adam Santo
    tags: inspirational
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    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
    32155 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
    tags: writing
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
    tags: authors, books, writing
    1170 likes

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    Nora Roberts
    “You can fix anything but a blank page.”
    ― Nora Roberts
    tags: on-writing, storytelling, writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: crayon, quip, writing
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    Steve Martin
    “Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: drinking, humor, writing
    489 likes

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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: books, christopher-hitchens, humour, literature, writing
    1187 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
    ― robert heinlein
    tags: writing
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    Holly Black
    “What an author doesn't know could fill a book.”
    ― Holly Black, Lucinda's Secret
    tags: author, books, knowledge
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    Jess C. Scott
    “The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, The Darker Side of Life
    tags: author, books, cyberpunk, dark, dark-elves, ego, elves, fantasy, fiction, future, future-present, life, light, philosophy, series, urban-fantasy, wisdom
    111 likes

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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
    37996 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: imagination, inspiration, writing
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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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
    8092 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing
    9973 likes

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    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
    6449 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: history, humor, writing
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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