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#1

“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

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#2

“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

tags: madness

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#3

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: power-of-words

2685 likes

#4

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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#5

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe

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#6

“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
― Margaret Wise Brown

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#7

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
― D.H. Lawrence

tags: inspirational

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#8

“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
― China Miéville, The City & the City

tags: books, ideas, stories

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#9

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

tags: life

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#10

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#11

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

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#12

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

50601 likes

#13

“It was her religion to make the best of everything.”
― Lyndall Gordon, Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft – The Unconventional Genius Who Founded Modern Feminism and Influenced Political Philosophy

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#14

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

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#15

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

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#16

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

tags: novels, short-stories, writing

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#17

“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

148478 likes

#18

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
― Langston Hughes

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#19

“In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel”
― Constantin Stanislavski, Creating A Role

tags: acting, drama

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#20

“Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.”
― Constantin Stanislavski

tags: art, artist

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#21

“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”
― Constantin Stanislavski, My Life In Art

tags: art, inspirational, theatre

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#22

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology

4137 likes

#23

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

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#24

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

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#25

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#26

“Hope is a waking dream.”
― Aristotle

tags: dreams, hope

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#27

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

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#28

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair, life

6528 likes

#29

“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

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#30

“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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