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  • #1
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #2
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #3
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #4
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #5
    Ernest Hemingway
    “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #6
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Isn't it pretty to think so.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

  • #7
    Ernest Hemingway
    “If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

  • #8
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #9
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #10
    Ernest Hemingway
    “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #11
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • #12
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

  • #13
    James Joyce
    “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #14
    James Joyce
    “But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

    from “Araby”
    James Joyce, Dubliners

  • #15
    James Joyce
    “Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?”
    James Joyce, The Dead
    tags: love

  • #16
    Annie Dillard
    “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
    Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

  • #17
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #18
    Robert Frost
    “We love the things we love for what they are.”
    Robert Frost

  • #19
    Emily Dickinson
    “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
    Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

  • #20
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    Charles Baudelaire

  • #21
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #22
    Leo Tolstoy
    “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #24
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #25
    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #27
    Albert Einstein
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #28
    Albert Einstein
    “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #30
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet



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