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    Janelle Taylor
    “This time they would find the path to love and to acceptance. This time, she would know and understand the secrets of his heart as well as those of her own.”
    ― Janelle Taylor, Savage Ecstasy
    tags: native-american
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    Chaim Potok
    “I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
    ― Chaim Potok, The Chosen
    tags: silence
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    Chaim Potok
    “…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.”
    ― Chaim Potok, Davita's Harp
    tags: chaim, davita, harp, past, planning, potok, understand
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    Stephen King
    “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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    Bram Stoker
    “Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: entrapment, supernatural, welcome
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    Grant Morrison
    “Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.”
    ― Grant Morrison, Sebastian O
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    Edward Albee
    “What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
    ― Edward Albee
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  • #8
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Maxim Gorky
    “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
    ― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
    "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Kristina Meister
    “Love is not a tallying of favors, it is a limitless supply given freely.”
    ― Kristina Meister
    tags: love
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    Nick Hornby
    “The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
    ― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good
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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
    7236 likes

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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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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69800 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
    35682 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    J.R. Ward
    “You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted.”
    ― J.R. Ward, Lover Reborn
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    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, imagination
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: secrets
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Arthur Miller
    “Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”
    ― Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
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    “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
    ― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
    tags: desk, viewpoint
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: ghosts, haunt
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    Kay Ryan
    “The day misspent,
    the love misplaced,
    has inside it
    the seed of redemption.
    Nothing is exempt
    from resurrection.”
    ― Kay Ryan, Say Uncle
    tags: redemption
    927 likes



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