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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: writing
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    Sophocles
    “Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
    ― Sophocles
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    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
    tags: intelligence, mind, poverty
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    François Mauriac
    “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
    ― Francois Mauriac
    tags: books, literacy, reading
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    Terry McMillan
    “Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
    ― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts
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    Zig Ziglar
    “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
    ― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World
    tags: bathing, humor, motivation
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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
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    “It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
    ― R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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    Julian Barnes
    “This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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    Louis C.K.
    “I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”
    ― Louis C.K.
    tags: advice, bored, boredom, inspirational, reprimand, young
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    Lillian Hellman
    “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
    ― Lillian Hellman
    tags: integrity
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    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    “Never say more than is necessary.”
    ― Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    tags: essay, history
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    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    John Irving
    “You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
    ― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
    tags: humor, life-lessons, wrestling
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Edward Albee
    “You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
    ― Edward Albee
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “All happiness depends on courage and work.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
    tags: courage, happiness, work
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    Cynthia Ozick
    “We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
    ― Cynthia Ozick
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    Christopher Marlowe
    “Make me immortal with a kiss.”
    ― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
    tags: kiss
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Katharine Graham
    “The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
    ― Katharine Graham
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    Betsy Tobin
    “Cats, I decided, had certain advantages over men. There were loyal without being sycophantic, independent without being absent, and affectionate without being rapacious. That they choke up balls of fur and leave dead rodents at my feet is unfortunate. But it is not grounds for divorce.”
    ― Betsy Tobin, Ice Land
    tags: humor
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    Joe Raposo
    “Sunny day
    Sweepin' the clouds away
    On my way to where the air is sweet”
    ― Joe Raposo
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    George Saunders
    “Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
    ― George Saunders
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    Joseph Conrad
    “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
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    Susan Sontag
    “Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: attention, eagerness
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  • #30
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: funny
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