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    Leslie Stephen
    “No good story is quite true.”
    ― Leslie Stephen
    tags: writing-advice
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    Voltaire
    “The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Émile Zola
    “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, calling, life
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    Deborah J. Lightfoot
    “I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you'd give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.”
    ― Deborah J. Lightfoot, The Wysard
    tags: anger-management, critical-thinking, decision-making, rational-thought
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    “Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.”
    ― David Davis, Librarian's Night Before Christmas
    tags: censorship, christmas, jobs, librarian, library
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    Christopher Morley
    “When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.”
    ― Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Orson Scott Card
    “There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: change, control, greatness, power, words
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-process
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    S. Cameron Roach
    “Death can be a very liberating thing, especially when you are still among the living. Knowing that you will die frees you from the crushing burden that is Life, and yes, we all know that we are going to die, but we don't all accept that fact; we don't all live with that comforting knowledge. Instead, we strive in vain to be that one person who never dies, clawing away for that position that will ensure our immortality. The journey of Life is to meet Death on our own terms, and once that can be accepted, the world is wide open. - The Reflecting Pond; Insights of Alsop Tambor”
    ― S. Cameron Roach
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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    George Eliot
    “Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.”
    ― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    tags: on-writing, reading, writing
    1380 likes

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    Ben Michaelis
    “If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.”
    ― Ben Michaelis
    tags: criticism, originality, self-esteem, self-expression
    17 likes

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    Blaise Pascal
    “I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: heaven, hell, intelligence, paradise, stupidity
    430 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Robert Frost
    “You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.”
    ― Robert Frost
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    Stephen King
    “Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: on-writing, plot, story, writing
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    “Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?”
    ― David John Richards
    tags: readers-and-reading, readers-and-writers, reading, reading-habits, subtlety
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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  • #25
    “We live by encouragement and die without it -- slowly, sadly, and angrily.”
    ― Celeste Holm
    tags: discouragement, empathy, encouragement, support, supportiveness
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    W.B. Yeats
    “it's a long lane that has no turning.”
    ― W.B. Yeats, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin
    tags: books, reading
    2331 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
    6805 likes

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    Robert Hughes
    “The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

    [Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]”
    ― Robert Hughes
    tags: art, artists, cezanne, confidence, creative-process, depression, depression-humor, doubt, fame, fame-and-fortune, great-art, great-artist, greatness, humility, insecurity, introspection, narcissism, paul-cezanne, self-awareness, self-delusion, self-doubt, self-doubts, self-esteem, self-esteem-or-lack-thereof
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    W.B. Yeats
    “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
    tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder
    3570 likes



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