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    Aaron Copland
    “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
    ― Aaron Copland
    tags: music
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    Ann Marie Frohoff
    “Creativity is the catalyst to the future.”
    ― Ann Marie Frohoff
    tags: alternative-rock, coming-of-age, music, music-lyrics, romance, teen, teen-angst, teenage-girl, teenage-love, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-series, young-love
    53 likes

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    John Burroughs
    “The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
    ― John Burroughs
    640 likes

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    Edgar Degas
    “Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
    ― Edgar Degas
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    1339 likes

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    Woodrow Wilson
    “I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
    ― Woodrow Wilson
    tags: brains, intelligence
    1258 likes

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    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: gratitude, happiness
    5515 likes

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    Ann Marie Frohoff
    “All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.”
    ― Ann Marie Frohoff
    tags: roman, teen-fiction, teenagers, writer, writer-quotes, writers, yalit, young-adult
    162 likes

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  • #9
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
    7772 likes

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    Amy Tan
    “We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
    tags: dream, fate, hope
    2585 likes

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    W.H. Auden
    “Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
    ― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter
    tags: poetry
    1795 likes

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    Ishmael Reed
    “No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”
    ― Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
    tags: literature, novels, writers, writing
    935 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
    4327 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
    ― Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare
    tags: music
    3552 likes

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    Ralph Ellison
    “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: control, defeat, humanity, life
    2214 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
    33871 likes

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    Toni Morrison
    “Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993
    tags: story, writing
    1767 likes

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    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
    ― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories
    1046 likes

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    Elizabeth Taylor
    “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
    ― Elizabeth Taylor
    tags: indulgence, virtue
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    Chaim Potok
    “I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
    ― Chaim Potok, The Chosen
    tags: silence
    2395 likes

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    Edmond Rostand
    “A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.”
    ― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
    tags: kiss, lips, secret
    1409 likes

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    Philip Roth
    “Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
    ― Philip Roth
    1652 likes

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  • #23
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
    ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Americus, Book I
    tags: poetry
    1473 likes

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  • #24
    Edward Albee
    “What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
    ― Edward Albee
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  • #25
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109280 likes

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    Maxim Gorky
    “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
    ― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays
    2359 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
    ― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales
    tags: humor
    1446 likes

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    John Burroughs
    “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
    ― John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature
    tags: life, opportunity
    1493 likes

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  • #29
    William Wordsworth
    “Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
    Than when we soar.”
    ― William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814
    845 likes

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  • #30
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
    tags: genius
    1653 likes



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