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    Ted Dekker
    “Dive deep. Drown willingly”
    ― Ted Dekker, White: The Great Pursuit
    tags: christian, inspirational
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    Jay Asher
    “You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    Albert Einstein
    “When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: fairy-tales
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: religion, rose, roses
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    Beth Revis
    “This is what I'm king of: a whirling mass of humans who either hate me or ignore me.”
    ― Beth Revis, A Million Suns
    tags: allegorical
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    William Blake
    “When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”
    ― William Blake
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    William Blake
    “Both read the Bible day and night,
    But thou read'st black where I read white.”
    ― William Blake
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    William Wordsworth
    “Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.”
    ― William Wordsworth
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    William Wordsworth
    “But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.”
    ― William Wordsworth
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Albert Einstein
    “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: creativity, education, learning, regimentation
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    “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
    ― Henry Thomas Buckle
    tags: creativity, dreams, gossip, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, paraphrased
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    John Eldredge
    “She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.”
    ― John Elderedge
    tags: love, marriage, romance, women
    74 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: adventure, inconvenience, perspectives
    1142 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: freedom-of-religion, religion
    683 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, interdependence, loyalty
    464 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”
    ― G. K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: philosophy
    377 likes

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  • #24
    Shannon Hale
    “... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.”
    ― Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl
    tags: story
    472 likes

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    Joseph Campbell
    “Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: inspirational, journalism, myth, story, truth-telling
    416 likes

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    Jessamyn West
    “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
    ― Jessamyn West
    tags: books, on-fiction, reality, truth
    1357 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    Doris Lessing
    “There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
    ― Doris May Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, storytelling, truth, truth-telling
    751 likes

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    Tim O'Brien
    “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
    ― Tim O'Brien
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing
    2420 likes

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    James A. Owen
    “All stories are true. But some of them never happened.”
    ― James A. Owen, The Search for the Red Dragon
    tags: on-fiction, perspective, stories
    126 likes



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