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#1

“The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

#2

“To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
― Henry Green

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#3

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

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#4

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

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#5

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard

tags: imagination, immortality

1860 likes

#6

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading, writing

3266 likes

#7

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11252 likes

#8

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

6097 likes

#9

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

tags: acceptance, life, love, worth

3776 likes

#10

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

3048 likes

#11

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

39265 likes

#12

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

2675 likes

#13

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: inspirational, writing

4692 likes

#14

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

tags: courage, talent

4620 likes

#15

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

3561 likes

#16

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

2118 likes

#17

“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous."— Queen Victoria”
― Queen Victoria

51 likes

#18

“Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”
― J.M. Barrie

1756 likes

#19

“What a long strange trip it's been.”
― Jerry Garcia

1426 likes

#20

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

2332 likes

#21

“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Home

tags: faith, inspirational

1331 likes

#22

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words

3628 likes

#23

“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
― George Saunders

1238 likes

#24

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. ”
― Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

896 likes

#25

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

8485 likes

#26

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8

3589 likes

#27

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

2378 likes

#28

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

1433 likes

#29

“All the world's a stage we're going through.”
― Lorrie Moore, Anagrams

1034 likes

#30

“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
― Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky and Other Poems

tags: alice, carroll, jabberwock, jabberwocky, lewis, wonderland

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