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    Augustine of Hippo
    “There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
    ― St. Augustine
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    Abigail Adams
    “Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. ”
    ― Abigail Adams
    tags: adam-and-eve, bible, christianity, feminism, genesis, knowledge, motherhood, old-testement, religion
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    “I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die”
    ― M.T., A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs
    tags: alcoholics-anonymous, frequently-misattributed-quote, poison, resentment
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    Samuel Beckett
    “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
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    Daniel J. Boorstin
    “A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.”
    ― Daniel J. Boorstin
    tags: bestseller
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.”
    ― kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
    tags: bad-reviews, critics, literary-criticism, reviewers, writing
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    Stephen King
    “I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: critics, writing, writing-life
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    Jeffrey Robinson
    “Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.”
    ― Jeffrey Robinson
    tags: critics, writing
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    Edward Abbey
    “Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.”
    ― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
    tags: books, critics, readers
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    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: imagination, inspiration, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: writing
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    Isaac Asimov
    “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: humor, writing
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Anne Rice
    “First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.”
    ― Anne Rice
    tags: point-of-view, writing
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: books
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    George Carlin
    “I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him.”
    ― George Carlin
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    Jane Austen
    “Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: appearance, deceit, humility
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    Ovid
    “Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
    ― Ovid, Heroides
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
    tags: animals, cruelty, goodness
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    Carole Gill
    “In the attempt to find the just measure of horror and terror, I came upon the writing of Carole Gill whose work revealed a whole new dimension to me. The figure of the gothic child was there. Stoker's horror was there. Along with the romance! At the heart of her writing one stumbles upon a genuine search for that darkness we lost with the loss of Stoker."

    ~Dr. Margarita Georgieva ~ Gothic Readings in The Dark”
    ― Carole Gill
    tags: bram-stoker, carole-gill, gothic-readings-in-the-dark, vampires
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    Carole Gill
    “I'd love for readers to read what books are about so that if they are expecting happy endings in dark horror novels, they won't reach for the Vallium or something worse!”
    ― Carole Gill
    tags: carole-gill, dark-gothic-horror-novel, readers
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    Conan O'Brien
    “When all else fails, there's always delusion.”
    ― Conan O'Brien
    tags: absurd, life
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    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
    ― Winston Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
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    “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
    ― Paul McCartney
    tags: beatles, vegetarianism
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: fear, grief, sorrow
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The death of a beloved is an amputation.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: bereavement, death
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    J.K. Rowling
    “You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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    Thomas Merton
    “Perhaps I am stronger than I think.”
    ― Thomas Merton, The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
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