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    Stephen King
    “How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing?' he asked himself. 'How much courage to go on and do that after you’ve spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, ‘I have to quit these peas, peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.’'

    ‘A lot,’ he said, wiping at the corners of his eyes again. ‘A damn lot, that’s what I think.”
    ― Stephen King, Insomnia
    tags: moving-on-and-letting-go, realization
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    Gillian Flynn
    “There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
    tags: idealizations, love
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
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    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Sylvia Plath
    “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: friendship, humor, shared-ordeal
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    Francis Bacon
    “If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
    ― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
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    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    “Never say more than is necessary.”
    ― Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    tags: essay, history
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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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    Lauren Oliver
    “She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.

    And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a word to express it, and that made Liesl feel hopeful, somehow.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po
    tags: emotion, feeling, ineffable, language, vastness, words
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    Maxine Kumin
    “Cherish your wilderness.”
    ― Maxine Kumin
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    Keith Richards
    “If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
    ― Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words
    tags: drugs, music, philosophy, politics
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    Chris Cleave
    “On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
    ― Chris Cleave, Little Bee
    tags: healing, scars
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Give me an honest con man any day.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
    tags: paradox
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  • #15
    “Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: individuality
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    Gillian Flynn
    “There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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    Steve Wozniak
    “If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
    ― Steve Wozniak
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    Adam Lindsay Gordon
    “Life is mostly froth and bubble,
    Two things stand like stone.
    Kindness in another's trouble,
    Courage in your own.”
    ― Adam Lindsay Gordon
    tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: drinking
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    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: evil
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    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    ― Anne Bronte
    tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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    Kevin Smith
    “Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.”
    ― Kevin Smith, Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good
    tags: art, artists-life, creativity, decency, discouragement, encouragement, kindness, supportive-actions
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    Kim Gordon
    “Still, I’ve always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.”
    ― Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
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    Scott Meyer
    “All of the worst books I ever read were published,”
    ― Scott Meyer, An Unwelcome Quest
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    Scott Meyer
    “Martin said, “A mixed metaphor is like a beautiful woman.” “How so?” “They can both make a guy look stupid.”
    ― Scott Meyer, Spell or High Water
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    Seymour Shubin
    “And with that he sensed that this girl he loved and yet knew he had to push away had finally pushed back.”
    ― Seymour Shubin, Witness to Myself
    tags: loss-of-love, love
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    John Green
    “Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.”
    ― John Green
    tags: bakers, books, donuts, librarians, simile
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    Morrissey
    “There's a club, if you'd like to go
    You could meet somebody who really loves you.'
    So you go, and you stand on your own
    And you leave on your own
    And you go home, and you cry
    And you want to die.”
    ― Morrissey
    tags: humor, lyrics, music
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    Morrissey
    “Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.
    No hope, no harm; just another false alarm”
    ― Morrissey
    tags: humor, lyrics, music
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