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“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#2

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

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#3

“So what? All writers are lunatics!”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

tags: humor, writing

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#4

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#5

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#6

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
― Jules Renard

tags: writing

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#7

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#8

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: philosophy, poetry

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#9

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

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#10

“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
― Bob Ross

tags: art, inspirational

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#11

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy

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#12

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

tags: humor, science

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#13

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

tags: fear, life, science, understanding

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#14

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: evidence, faith, science, skepticism

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#15

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#16

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#17

“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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#18

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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#19

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory

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#20

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth

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#21

“So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: lies, truth

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#22

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
― Jessamyn West

tags: books, on-fiction, reality, truth

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#23

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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#24

“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”
― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

tags: truth

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#25

“It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.”
― Taylor Swift

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#26

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

tags: chocolate, friendship

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#27

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#28

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

tags: friendship

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#29

“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
― Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days

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#30

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: friendship, snow

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