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#1

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
― Ben Okri

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#2

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

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#3

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: reading

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#4

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: atticus-finch, courage

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#5

“Money talks, bullshit walks.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

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#6

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
― Bertolt Brecht

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#7

“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

tags: life

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#8

“Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
― Emily Murphy

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#9

“Humans, not places, make memories.”
― Ama Ata Aidoo

tags: memories

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#10

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

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#11

“Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”
― William Allingham

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#12

“It is good people who make good places.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

tags: attitude, genius-loci, goodness, people, places, spirit, warmth, welcoming

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#13

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#14

“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.”
― Charles Nodier

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#15

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: books, reading

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#16

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

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#17

“She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

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#18

“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

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#19

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald

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#20

“Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

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#21

“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

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#22

“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
― Rebecca Makkai

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#23

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

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#24

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
― Kathy Acker

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#25

“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
― Cynthia Ozick

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#26

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

tags: annoyance, writing

1348 likes

#27

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

tags: forgiveness, hiding-place

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#28

“He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

tags: boy, cool, girl, successful, try

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#29

“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel

tags: happiness, life

1051 likes

#30

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, whiskey

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