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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Fall of Atlantis
    tags: despair, hope
    1658 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
    22960 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
    43849 likes

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    Julie Kagawa
    “Whatever you've done, or think you've done, it's over now. You can't go back and change it. What you do about it, right now, from here on out, that's the important thing. -Dawn of Eden, Ch8”
    ― Julie Kagawa, Dawn of Eden
    tags: blood-of-eden, dawn-of-eden, julie-kagawa
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    Jean M. Auel
    “You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.”
    ― Jean M. Auel
    tags: inspirational, writing
    151 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
    tags: inspirational
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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House
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    Jean M. Auel
    “If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.”
    ― Jean M. Auel, The Valley of Horses
    tags: jondalar, love, thonolan
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    Jean M. Auel
    “A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.”
    ― Jean M. Auel, The Mammoth Hunters
    tags: beliefs, principles
    15 likes

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    Jean M. Auel
    “I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.”
    ― Jean M. Auel
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    Jean M. Auel
    “Sometimes women who aren’t perfect are more interesting; they’ve done more, or learned something.”
    ― Jean M. Auel, The Valley of Horses
    11 likes

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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Lady of Avalon
    106 likes

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    Jean M. Auel
    “They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.”
    ― Jean M. Auel, The Mammoth Hunters
    tags: culture, love
    93 likes

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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
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    Jean M. Auel
    “Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.”
    ― Jean M. Auel
    tags: adaptation, change, individuality, life, variety
    105 likes

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    Louis L'Amour
    “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
    ― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
    tags: books, inspirational, reading
    2761 likes

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    Jeaniene Frost
    “If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)”
    ― Jeaniene Frost
    tags: death, eternity, love, romance, waiting
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    Jean M. Auel
    “You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.”
    ― Jean M. Auel, The Mammoth Hunters
    tags: ayla, destiny, fate, jondalar, love
    16 likes

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    Adrienne Woods
    “We sometimes have to make decisions we don’t want to.”
    ― Adrienne Woods, Frostbite
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: procrastination
    996 likes

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    Jean M. Auel
    “Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.”
    ― Jean M. Auel, The Mammoth Hunters
    tags: art, artistry, creativity, process
    18 likes

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    Karen Marie Moning
    “Four: If you try to force yourself into my head, I will force myself into your pants.”
    ― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever
    tags: dreamfever, jericho-barrons
    321 likes

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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley
    tags: inspirational, wisdom
    84 likes

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  • #27
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    1958 likes

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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon
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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon
    tags: forgiveness
    59 likes

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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
    tags: merlin
    80 likes



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