Quotes - Pracheta (poorvabooks) Showing 1-30 of 46

#1

“Every artist was first an amateur.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: artist, skill, skills, talent, talents

#2

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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#3

“How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you.”
― Ruskin Bond - Delhi is not far

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#4

“...the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

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#5

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
― Paula Fox

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#6

“I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.”
― Diane Setterfield

tags: books, fiction, reading

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#7

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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#8

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

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#9

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
― Richard Bach

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#10

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: healing, vulnerability

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#11

“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”
― Jackie Collins

tags: writer, writing

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#12

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

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#13

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

tags: truth

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#14

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

tags: inspirational, missed-chances

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#15

“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: emotions, inspiration, life, wisdom

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#16

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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#17

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, love

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#18

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#19

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: happiness

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#20

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts

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#21

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

tags: writing

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#22

“Experience life in all possible ways --
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light,
summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience, because
the more experience you have, the more
mature you become.”
― Osho

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#23

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

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#24

“You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”
― Georgette Heyer, Powder and Patch

tags: humor, men, thoughts, women

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#25

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: growing-up, illusions, life

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#26

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

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#27

“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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#28

“The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

tags: hate, love

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