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#1

“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

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#2

“We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

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#3

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: reading

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#4

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: education, educational, inspirational, inspiring, learning, mentoring

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#5

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness

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#6

“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

tags: life

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#7

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

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#8

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
― John Cheever

tags: books, fiction, inspirational, on-fiction, writing

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#9

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books-reading

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#10

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

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#11

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

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#12

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

tags: facts, truth

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#13

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

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#14

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

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#15

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

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#16

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

tags: knowledge

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#17

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

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#18

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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#19

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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#20

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

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#21

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

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#22

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

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