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#1

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

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#2

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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#3

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

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#4

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

tags: writing

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#5

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

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#6

“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

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#7

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence

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#8

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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#9

“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

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#10

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: draco-malfoy, stupidity

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#11

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

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#12

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

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#13

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

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#14

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

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#15

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

tags: facts, truth

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#16

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

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#17

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

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#18

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

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#19

“One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
― Jose Rizal

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#20

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

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#21

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

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#22

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

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#23

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: love, music

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#24

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai

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#25

“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
― Eric Carle

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#26

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

tags: life-truths, reality-check

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#27

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

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#28

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: life

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#29

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

tags: knowledge

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#30

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier

tags: inspirational, life-lessons

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