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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: attributed-no-source, writing
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: emphasis, exclamation-points, style, writing
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: writing
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Guillermo del Toro
    “The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
    ― Guillermo Del Toro
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    John Greenleaf Whittier
    “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
    ― John Greenleaf Whittier
    tags: life, words
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: books
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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    ― Henry Ward Beecherr
    tags: books, humor
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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: books, truth
    6036 likes



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