Quotes - Marta Dec (gejda) (Gdańsk, Poland) Showing 1-30 of 363

#1

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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#2

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

tags: conversation

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#3

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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#4

“I've always loved high style in low company.”
― Anita Loos

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#5

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

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#6

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines

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#7

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#8

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#9

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

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#10

“We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance

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#11

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

tags: katharine-hepburn

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#12

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

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#13

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

tags: inspirational

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#14

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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#15

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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#16

“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

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#17

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life

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#18

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

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#19

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#20

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

tags: writing

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#21

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

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#22

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

tags: courage, reputation

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#23

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

tags: writing-words

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#24

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: steppenwolf

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#25

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

tags: inspirational

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#26

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

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#27