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#1

“...always remember one thing, life is and will always be meant to be lived. Taste it, savor it, consume it and let it consume you. Get lost in it. Life is intoxicating if it's lived right. You should never be afraid of life.”
― Nicole Banks, Shattered

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#2

“...Get lost in it. Life is intoxicating if it's lived right. You should never hold anything back. There's entirely too much to explore and experience and taste and touch; and we're never given enough time to do it all.”
― Nicole Banks, Shattered

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#3

“Shit. With Qhuinn looking at him like that, he couldn’t remember his own name. Blaysox? Blacklock? Blabberfox? Who the fuck knew…”
― J R Ward, Lover at Last

tags: blay-qhuinn

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#4

“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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#5

“A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
― Ruth K. Westheimer

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#6

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

tags: art, love, profound

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#7

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life

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#8

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

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#9

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
― Ben Jonson

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#10

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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#11

“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
― Ernesto Guevara

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#12

“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

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#13

“It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”
― Ian McEwan

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#14

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

tags: writing

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#15

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

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#16

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: steppenwolf

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#17

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

tags: egg, food

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#18

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

tags: books, inspirational

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#19

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#20

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

tags: women

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#21

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

tags: beauty, canyons, carvings, nature, perseverance, suffering, windstorms

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#22

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

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#23

“I love you. Those three words have a deeply embedded history. They come with a whole lifetime of laughter and tears. So when I say them, I hope you feel the weight of my words because they bear everything I hope. They bear everything that I am.”
― June Gray, The DISARM Series Boxed Set

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#24

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

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#25

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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#26

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

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