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    “We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.”
    ― William Osler
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    Stephen King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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    Stephen King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: fellowship, gamgee, hobbit, samwise, tolkien
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe
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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
    1890 likes

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  • #8
    George R.R. Martin
    “Winter is coming.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: forcasting, mottos, winter
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  • #9
    Harper Lee
    “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, people, scout
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: hindsight, regret
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    “Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.”
    ― Stephen Sondheim, Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes
    tags: creativity, lyricists, music, poetry
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