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#1

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writers, writing-advice

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“He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

tags: love

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#3

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

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#4

“First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: inspirational

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#5

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

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#6

“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

tags: love

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#7

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#8

“You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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#9

“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth', or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.”
― Victoria Finlay

tags: bacchus, colour, purple, wine

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#10

“...no one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfilment.”
― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

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#11

“Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.”
― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

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#12

“I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying—trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

tags: feminism, humanity, women, writing

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#13

“One of the parrots was very friendly with...Master of the Robes. He used to feed it nuts. As it nibbled from his fingers, he used to stroke its head, at which the bird appeared to enter a state of ecstasy. I very much wanted this kind of friendliness and several times tried to get a similar response, but to no avail. So I took a stick to punish it. Of course, thereafter it fled at the sight of me. This was a very good lesson in how to make friends: not by force but by compassion.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama

tags: friends, making-friends, parrots, punishment

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#14

“This is something I know: damaged women? We don't think we deserve kindness. IN fact, when kindness happens to us, we go a little berserk. It's threatening. Deeply. Because if I have to admit how profoundly I need kindness? I have to admit that I hid the me who deserves it down in a sadness well.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

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#15

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom

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#16

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns

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#17

“All we are not stares back at what we are.”
― W.H. Auden

tags: potential, self-improvement

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#18

“Idris: Are all people like this?
The Doctor: Like what?
Idris: So much bigger on the inside.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: brilliance, consciousness, doctor-who, human-greatness, humanity, potential, soul, tardis, the-doctor-s-wife, vastness

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#19

“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?”
― Confucius, The Life and Wisdom of Confucius

tags: potential, youth

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#20

“There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an one was Voltaire, of whom it was epigrammatically said: 'he expressed everybody's thoughts better than anyone.' But there are other men who attain greatness because they embody the potentiality of their own day and magically reflect the future. They express the thoughts which will be everybody's two or three centuries after them. Such as one was Descartes.”
― Thomas Henry Huxley

tags: descartes, expression, future, great, greatness, potential, rene-descartes, rené-descartes, science, voltaire

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#21

“All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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#22

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#23

“Towers are monuments in decline, you only have to build them and someone comes and knocks them down.”
― Lina Meruane, Sangre en el ojo

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#24

“Explain that to me! Cows? I sighed buying time to think. Cows or oxen or donkeys or idiot peasants or whatever you call thse damned animals that almost killed us! They didn’t have lights and they were going very, very slowly through an impossible fog. And wait, joder, I can’t believe it, there ahead of us is a truck right across the road, trying to make a U-turn! Are all Chileans crazy?”
― Lina Meruane, Sangre en el ojo

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#25

“Don't ever pray for love and health, Mother said. Or money. If G-d hears what you really want he will not give it to you. Guaranteed. When my father left my mother said, get down on your knees and pray for spoons”
― Jennifer Clement, Prayers for the Stolen

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#26

“The very next morning Julio, the gardener, walked through the front door and I fell in love.

He walked right into my body.

He climbed up my ribs and into me. I thought to myself, Say a prayer for ladders.

I wanted to smell his neck and place my mouth on his mouth and taste him and hold him. I wanted to smell the smell of garden and grass and palm tree, smell of rose and leaf and lemon flower. I fell in love with the gardener and his name was Julio.”
― Jennifer Clement, Prayers for the Stolen

tags: love

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#27

“Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.”
― Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights

tags: novel

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#28

“When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.”
― Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights

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#29

“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

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#30

“Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

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