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    Annie Dillard
    “One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.”
    ― Annie Dillard
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    David Guterson
    “Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
    ― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
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    Jenny Joseph
    “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.”
    ― Jenny Joseph, Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
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    Lord Byron
    “In secret we met
    In silence I grieve,
    That thy heart could forget,
    Thy spirit deceive.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
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    Aimee Bender
    “My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.”
    ― Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures
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    Candice Burnett
    “Fate sure has a twisted way of making my life entertaining.”
    ― Candice Burnett
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    Candice Burnett
    “Never let go of your dreams...because without them... what's the point?”
    ― Candice Burnett
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
    tags: fiction, on-fiction
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    Carlo Levi
    “The future has an ancient heart.”
    ― Carlo Levi
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    Walter Tevis
    “I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
    ― Walter Tevis
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    Emmuska Orczy
    “The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
    ― Baroness Emmuska Orczy
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
    To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
    How free it is, you have no idea how free——
    The peacefulness is so big it dazes you,
    And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets.
    It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them
    Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.

    --from "Tulips", written 18 March 1961”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel
    tags: death, peace, religion, tulips
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    Anne Enright
    “People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
    ― Anne Enright, The Gathering
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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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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “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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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Monica Ali
    “The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
    ― Monica Ali, Brick Lane
    tags: life
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Mary Gaitskill
    “My ambition was to live like music.”
    ― Mary Gaitskill
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    Monica Murphy
    “I’m yours,” I whisper. “All yours, Ryder. Use me. Fuck me. Hurt me. I don’t care. Just make me yours.”
    ― Monica Murphy, Owning Violet
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    Kate Chopin
    “She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
    ― Kate Chopin
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    N. Scott Momaday
    “A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
    ― N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
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    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery
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    Ralph Ellison
    “The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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    Harper Lee
    “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: writing-advice
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    Phyllis Diller
    “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
    ― Phyllis Diller
    tags: anger, funny, sleep
    8250 likes



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