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    Wilkie Collins
    “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: afternoon, schedule, tea, toast
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
    31272 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: cynic
    5419 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
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    Romain Rolland
    “Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
    ― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1
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    Lillian Hellman
    “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
    ― Lillian Hellman
    tags: integrity
    1891 likes

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
    12176 likes

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  • #8
    Leslie Marmon Silko
    “You don't have anything
    if you don't have the stories.”
    ― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
    1576 likes

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    Horton Foote
    “I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
    ― Horton Foote
    tags: inspirational, life
    2113 likes

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    Gary Paulsen
    “If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
    The book needs you.”
    ― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room
    tags: books
    2569 likes

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  • #11
    Donald E. Westlake
    “Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
    ― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much
    2537 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    ― Haruki Marukami
    tags: expectation
    6487 likes

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  • #13
    Paula Brackston
    “Better foolish and honest than clever and false.”
    ― Paula Brackston, The Witch's Daughter
    tags: insightful
    57 likes

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    Katherine Mansfield
    “The mind I love must have wild places.”
    ― Katherine Mansfield
    2486 likes

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  • #15
    William Steig
    “Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.”
    ― William Steig, Dominic
    tags: life
    1138 likes

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  • #16
    W.B. Yeats
    “I have spread my dreams under your feet.
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
    2379 likes

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  • #17
    Patti Smith
    “Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
    ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
    1716 likes

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    Carlos Castaneda
    “You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
    ― Carlos Castaneda
    2447 likes

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  • #19
    Isaac Asimov
    “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Ruth Reichl
    “Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
    ― Ruth Reichl
    tags: community, eating, food, life, sharing
    1400 likes

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  • #21
    Edward Abbey
    “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
    ― Edward Abbey
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    Harriet Prescott Spofford
    “The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.”
    ― Harriet Prescott Spofford, The Amber Gods and Other Stories
    725 likes

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    Steve Jobs
    “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135693 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
    tags: grudges
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    Jonathan Harnisch
    “I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.”
    ― Jonathan Harnisch, Freak
    tags: life, life-and-death, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-philosophy-inspirational, life-quotes, living-in-the-moment, living-in-the-now, living-in-the-past, living-in-the-present, living-life, living-life-to-the-fullest, now, past, present, present-moment, quotes, quotes-about-life, quotes-and-saying, quotes-of-life, quotes-of-the-day, quotes-to-live-by, the-past, the-past-looking-to-the-future, the-past-never-ends
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  • #27
    Dr. Seuss
    “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
    tags: inspirational
    14551 likes

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  • #28
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
    tags: heart, infidelity, relationships, seasons, summer
    3233 likes

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  • #29
    If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
    “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
    ― Chinua Achebe
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  • #30
    Amy Bloom
    “The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
    ― Amy Bloom, Away
    1494 likes



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