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    C.S. Lewis
    “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, literature, reading, reality
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    J. Arthur Moore
    “For Blake, the news was as a storm that tore him apart. How dare an enemy soldier hurt his father, how could an enemy soldier kill his father. This just could not have happened. He would have to do something about it. He would have to avenge his father’s death. Yes, he would go to the war and kill that soldier.”
    ― J. Arthur Moore, Blake's Story, Revenge and Forgiveness
    tags: american-civil-war, blake-bradford, history
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    “Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”
    ― Evelyn Lau, Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: expectation, hope, life
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
    tags: claire-fraser, historical-fiction, romance, scotland, time-travel
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
    tags: jamie-fraser
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: history, margaret-mitchell
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: bravery, cowards, fighting, heroes
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon
    tags: character, conflict, diana-gabaldon, fiction, mystery
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    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    ― Agatha Cristie
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    Les Brown
    “You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.”
    ― Les Brown, Live Your Dreams: Les Brown's Formula and Action Planner for Achieving Success and Happiness
    tags: inspirational
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    José Rizal
    “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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    “One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
    ― Agatha Cristie
    tags: agatha-cristie, inspirational, life, life-lessons, moments, time
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    Bill Watterson
    “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
    ― Bill Watterson
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    Robert E. Lee
    “It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it.”
    ― Robert E. Lee
    tags: american-civil-war, war
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    Hilary Mantel
    “You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
    ― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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    Brian Selznick
    “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
    ― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
    tags: dreamers, magic, mermaids, travel, wizard
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    Sarah Waters
    “I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
    ― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
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    S.E. Hinton
    “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
    ― S.E. Hinton
    tags: friends, friendship
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    Raymond Chandler
    “To say goodbye is to die a little.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
    tags: change, life, parting, romantics
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    Chang-rae Lee
    “It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.”
    ― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea
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    Isabel Allende
    “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: books
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
    tags: kiss, love, nature
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
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    Ward Moore
    “Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”
    ― Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee
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    Alex Haley
    “Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
    ― Alex Haley
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    Katherine Boo
    “Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
    ― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    tags: truth
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  • #30
    “Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
    ― Danielle Steel, The Gift
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