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    Alfred de Musset
    “How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception. ”
    ― Alfred de Musset
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    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
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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
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: women
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    James Branch Cabell
    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    ― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion
    tags: optimism, pessimism
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice
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    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, True Love
    tags: love, weirdness
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    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
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    Raymond Chandler
    “There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
    “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
    ― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts
    tags: alchemy, writing
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress
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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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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Brent Weeks
    “The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
    tags: truth
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    Brent Weeks
    “Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
    tags: fantasy, scifi
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    Brent Weeks
    “The perfect killer has no conscience.”
    ― Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows
    tags: truth
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    Brent Weeks
    “You will find no answers here, just choices.”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
    tags: life
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: life
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: chess, daring, ideas
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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    “A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
    tags: mind, new-ideas
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    Gene Stratton-Porter
    “If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”
    ― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost
    tags: industriousness, inspirational
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    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
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    Cesare Pavese
    “Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
    ― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
    tags: life, luxury
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    China Miéville
    “A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
    ― China Miéville, King Rat
    tags: challenge, trap
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  • #30
    William Golding
    “My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
    ― William Golding
    tags: past, yesterday
    1090 likes



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