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#1

“the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded”
― Terry Fallis, The Best Laid Plans

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#2

“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.

At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: bond, communication, connecting, connection, hands, holding-hands, journey, reaching-out, together, togetherness, touch, touching

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#3

“Touch is a freaky thing when you're not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Schwa Was Here

tags: touch, touching

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#4

“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: epitaph, humor, the-new-yorker

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#5

“Inventory:

"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

tags: champagne, contentment, curiosity, doubt, envy, foes, friends, hope, idleness, inventory, knowledge, laughter, life, love, sorrow, sufficienty, superfluity, unattainable, values, wisdom

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#6

“Lady, lady, never start
Conversation toward your heart;
Keep your pretty words serene;
Never murmur what you mean.
Show yourself, by word and look,
Swift and shallow as a brook.
Be as cool and quick to go
As a drop of April snow;
Be as delicate and gay
As a cherry flower in May.
Lady, lady, never speak
Of the tears that burn your cheek-
She will never win him, whose
Words had shown she feared to lose.
Be you wise and never sad,
You will get your lovely lad.
Never serious be, nor true,
And your wish will come to you-
And if that makes you happy, kid,
You'll be the first it ever did.”
― Dorothy Parker

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#7

“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
― Julian of Norwich

tags: hope-springs-eternal

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#8

“It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

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#9

“Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

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― walt whitman

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#10

“To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”
― Walt Whitman

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#11

“The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: find, life, sail-forth, seek, untold-want, voyager

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#12

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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#13

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#14

“Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

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#15

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: art, beauty, music, wonder

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#16

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friendship

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#17

“blessed be
she
who is
both
furious
and
magnificent”
― Taylor Rhodes, calloused: a field journal

tags: feminism, human-condition, nonfiction, strong-women, womanhood, women-s-strength

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#18

“Her way through life had been winding until now, like an unruly stream stumbling its way over hurdles and bumps, oftentimes trickling into those dark, unexpected cracks.

But she was like water. Persistent, versatile, never willing to wait.”
― Giselle Beaumont, On the Edge of Daylight: A Novel of the Titanic

tags: heroine, strong-woman-heroines, strong-women, titanic, water

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