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#1

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

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#2

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: books

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#3

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: books, reading

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#4

“Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”
― Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee

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#5

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

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#6

“Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

tags: truth

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#7

“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
― Margaret Wise Brown

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#8

“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
― Javier Marías

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#9

“I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.”
― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

tags: deeds, poet, words

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#10

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

tags: philosophy

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#11

“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

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#12

“We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?”
― Shirley Graham Du Bois

tags: artists

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#13

“I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.”
― Nadine Gordimer, The House Gun

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#14

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

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#15

“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”
― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

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#16

“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

tags: flaws, individuality, inspirational

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#17

“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
― Michel Onfray

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#18

“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
― André Aciman

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#19

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
― Nicholson Baker

tags: books, inventions

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#20

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

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#21

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

tags: dream

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#22

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: happiness

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