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    Justin Cronin
    “God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back.”
    ― Justin Cronin, The Passage
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #3
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Evan Winter
    “The days without difficulty are the days you do not improve.”
    ― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons
    tags: challenge, difficulty, effort, hardship, perseverance, price, struggle, work
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  • #8
    “It's funny how
    the thing that gives me
    the most words
    is silence”
    ― Emory Hall, Made of Rivers
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    “you must rest.
    and all at once
    they fell into a deep sleep.
    all the tired women
    that lived inside her.”
    ― Emory Hall, Made of Rivers
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  • #10
    “You existence
    reminded me
    of sunsets and ocean waves
    yet
    you still wonder
    what it took
    for me to fall
    for someone like
    you”
    ― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon
    tags: love, poetry
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  • #11
    Li-Young Lee
    “A poem is like a score for the human voice.”
    ― Li-Young Lee
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