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    Anton Chekhov
    “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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    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: loneliness, people, scared, world
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “My heart is warm with the friends I make,
    And better friends I'll not be knowing,
    Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
    No matter where it's going.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry
    tags: friends, inspirational, train
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    John Cheever
    “I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
    ― John Cheever
    tags: readers-and-writers
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: writing
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: love
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
    tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge
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    Tracy Chevalier
    “He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.”
    ― Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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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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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Daisy Goodwin
    “... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.”
    ― Daisy Goodwin, The American Heiress
    tags: cash, cora, duchess, money, riches, wealth, wisdom
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    Bette Greene
    “Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.”
    ― Bette Greene, Summer of My German Soldier
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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  • #16
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    tags: feminism, philosophy
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  • #17
    “If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
    ― Carter Crocker
    tags: confidence
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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  • #21
    “One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
    ― Michael J. Fox
    tags: abuse, bullying, courage, dignity, saving-milly, self-esteem, strength
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge
    2257 likes



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