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#1

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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#2

“In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.”
― Louise Brooks

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#3

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
― Arthur Miller

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#4

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

tags: greatness

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#6

“What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”
― Edith Wharton

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#7

“We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.”
― Clive Barker, Imajica

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#8

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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#9

“For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.”
― Jean Dubuffet

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#10

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, self-determination

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#11

“Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.”
― Valerie Sherwood

tags: writing-craft, writing-from-the-heart

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#12

“We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: pessimistic

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#13

“Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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#14

“So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying,
An intolerable waiting,
A longing for another place and time,
Another condition.”
― Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse

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#15

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: ignorance

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#16

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

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#17

“Giving and taking comfort in everything they could give and take, every part of them sought to make themselves one till it was impossible for either to know the comforter from the one being comforted.”
― Laird Koenig, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

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#18

“The night, a living presence, was in constant motion, shifting itself, sighing, breathing. She wondered if perhaps it, too, was trying to get warm.”
― Laird Koenig, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

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#19

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

tags: greatness

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#20

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: protection, silence, speech

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#21

“As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.”
― Antonia Fraser

tags: hatred, oppression, persecution, terrorism, violence

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#22

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#23

“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

tags: echo, words

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#24

“Do you know what it’s called when you hate something you know nothing about? It’s called prejudice.”
― Heather Munn, How Huge the Night

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#25

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

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#26

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: courage, empowering, fear, feminist, political, powerful, vision, women-strength

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#27

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France

tags: animals, love, pets

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#28

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
― Anatole France

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#29

“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”
― Anatole France

tags: books

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#30

“I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”
― Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon 38

tags: amphitryon

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#31

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit

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