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  • #1
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: inspirational, life, work
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    David Foster Wallace
    “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: books, infinite-jest
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “I write to discover what I know.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
    tags: authors, childhood, humor, southern-authors, southern-writers, writing
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
    tags: art, craft, fiction, reading, writing
    711 likes

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    Woody Allen
    “Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: art, humor, life
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    Woody Allen
    “I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: absurd, humor, music
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    Woody Allen
    “You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: hedonism, humor, sex
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  • #10
    Woody Allen
    “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: success
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  • #11
    Woody Allen
    “I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: humor, reading, speed-reading, tolstoy
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  • #12
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: art, art-appreciation
    418 likes

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    Flannery O'Connor
    “So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: competence, mediocrity, short-stories, stories
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
    tags: creative-process, escape, novels, reality, writing
    627 likes

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    Arundhati Roy
    “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
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    Robert Frost
    “Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: advice, caution, cautionary, inspirational
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    Robert Frost
    “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning, mentoring
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  • #18
    Robert Frost
    “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: birthdays, growing-older, men-and-women
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    Robert Frost
    “To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: afflictions, on-writing, poetry
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  • #20
    Robert Frost
    “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: home, homecoming, inspirational-quotes
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  • #21
    Robert Frost
    “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: happiness
    1817 likes



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