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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    “A pen and a napkin is all an author needs. A finger. Sand..."
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    ― Morten Jorgensen
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    Chocolate Waters
    “(1)BEING A POET
    is like opening a car door
    & exposing yourself.

    (2)BEING A GOOD POET
    is like opening the door
    & exposing the passenger
    as well.”
    ― Chocolate Waters
    tags: humor, poetry-quotes
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #7
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #9
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    John Steinbeck
    “A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
    tags: nature, sunset
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: happiness
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, inspirational, living, mermaids, no-fear, sea
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Time for you and time for me,
    And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
    And for a hundred visions and revisions,
    Before the taking of a toast and tea.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: poetry
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    Harper Lee
    “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: mockingbird, sin, wisdom
    1849 likes

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    Herman Melville
    “It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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    Herman Melville
    “Call me Ishmael.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: first-sentence, introduction, opening-lines, sobriquet
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    Katharine Lee Bates
    “O beautiful for spacious skies
    for amber waves of grain”
    ― Katharine Lee Bates
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    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.”
    ― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
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    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: benediction, johnny-cade, ponyboy-curtis, ralph-macchio
    3745 likes

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  • #23
    E.E. Cummings
    “and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
    and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
    ― E.E. Cummings
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  • #24
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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  • #25
    Emily Dickinson
    “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Christopher Marlowe
    “Make me immortal with a kiss.”
    ― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
    tags: kiss
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  • #27
    Margaret Wise Brown
    “Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
    ― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon
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    Laura Hillenbrand
    “His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”
    ― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: katharine-hepburn
    4413 likes

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  • #30
    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
    3542 likes



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