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#1

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: inspirational, wonder

#3

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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#4

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

tags: inspirational

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#5

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#6

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: soul, truth

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#7

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: life, love

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#8

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#9

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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#10

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

tags: color, god, purple, religion

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#11

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

tags: punctuality

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#12

“MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.”
― Patricia Briggs, Moon Called

tags: grave-offenses, humor

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#13

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

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#14

“What are you" -Mac

"I don't follow" -Jericho

"You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are you?" -Mac

"A man with a rope." -Jericho”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

tags: funny

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#15

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies

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#16

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

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#17

“Terrible thought she was brave. She remembered it now, heard his voice in her head as if he stood next to her. "They scared. Not you, though." Terrible thought she was brave, and if he - a man whose name was Terrible, a man whose path people scrambled to get out of - thought so, it must be true. She could do this, she would do this.”
― Stacia Kane, Unholy Ghosts

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#18

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: good-evil

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#19

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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#20

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

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#21

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On Rainy Days

tags: foolishness, inspirational

1306 likes

#22

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading

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#23

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

tags: human-nature, love

2887 likes

#24

“Passion precedes prosperity.”
― Andrew Hildreth

tags: passion, prosperity

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#25

“I figure you really wanted me you'd say. Like now, maybe, if you dig. I'll fuckin carry you down your place on a run, you tell me aye, get you on your back afore the next word comes out your mouth. But you oughta have yourself certain, causen I ain't lookin for charity, an I ain't lettin you go after. Once...once ain't enough for me, dig?”
― Stacia Kane, Unholy Magic

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#26

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth

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#27

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

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#28

“The silence joined the words we always left unspoken. Circling around and around until I was sure, the quiet would slice me open".-Lo Preston-The Wild Hunt”
― Ashley Jeffery

tags: the-wild-hunt

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#29

“The dead never leave us. I didn’t have to see rotting zombies to remind me of that. Every day I remembered them and mourned. An ache inside that was forever constant. All I had left of them were memories. I cherished everyone like they were diamonds. I didn’t want to forget them. I didn’t want to let go." Lorelei Preston-The Wild Hunt”
― Ashley Jeffery

tags: the-wild-hunt

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#30

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#31

“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
― Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian

tags: revenge

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