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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: cheese, poetry
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    Alan Bennett
    “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
    tags: books
    3158 likes

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    Anne Lamott
    “Joy is the best makeup.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
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  • #4
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Anaïs Nin
    “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: independence, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
    12718 likes

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  • #7
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it was scattered among ruins.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: madame-bovary
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    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
    4517 likes

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  • #10
    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
    9084 likes

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  • #11
    Michelle Hodkin
    “Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”
    ― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
    tags: inspirational-quotes, mara-dyer, reality, truth
    2941 likes

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  • #12
    Helen Keller
    “What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
    ― Hellen Keller
    tags: self, truth
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  • #13
    Helen Keller
    “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: life
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  • #14
    Helen Keller
    “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: lily-white-cleats
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    Jim Butcher
    “I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Death Masks
    tags: harry-dresden, humor, life
    120 likes

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  • #16
    Glen Cook
    “There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.”
    ― Glen Cook
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
    tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset
    5317 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
    tags: clouds, morning, sea, sky, wind
    227 likes

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  • #19
    Leopold Stokowski
    “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
    ― Leopold Stokowski
    tags: music
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  • #20
    Suzanne Collins
    “Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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  • #21
    S.E. Hinton
    “I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now
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  • #22
    L.M. Montgomery
    “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: despair, hope
    2450 likes

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  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
    tags: emptiness
    654 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
    tags: ecstasy, escape, freedom, intoxication, reality
    2763 likes

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  • #25
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
    18377 likes

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  • #26
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: secrets
    3579 likes

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  • #27
    Angela Carter
    “For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.”
    ― Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve
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  • #28
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
    7746 likes

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  • #29
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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  • #30
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
    2382 likes



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