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“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

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#2

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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“Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#4

“For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

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#5

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
― E. Nesbit, The Magic World

tags: eat, eating, humor, luxury, reading

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#6

“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

tags: desires, promises

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#7

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

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#8

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

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#9

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

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#10

“Let others bring order to chaos. I would bring chaos to order, instead,”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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#11

“Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
― Aisha Tyler

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#12

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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#13

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

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#14

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words

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#15

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

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#16

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

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#17

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

tags: writing-life

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#18

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8

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#19

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: humor, laughter

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#20

“Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: cruelty, impact

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#21

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

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#22

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#23

“The beast is dry and mottled, shedding skin
as minutes drop from life, a wristy piece
of dogged ugliness, its labors meant
to carve from language beauty, that beauty which
lifts free of flesh to find itself in print”
― John Updike

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#24

“And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
― Toni Morrison

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#25

“All the world's a stage we're going through.”
― Lorrie Moore, Anagrams

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#26

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

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#27

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

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#28

“It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them. ”
― Eva Ibbotson, The Secret of Platform 13

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#29

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

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#30

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: food, love

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