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“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge

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#2

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading

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#3

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

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#4

“Joy is the best makeup.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

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#5

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

tags: brain, mind

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#6

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir

tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness

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#7

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

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#8

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

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#9

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

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#11

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

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#12

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

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#13

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

tags: read, reader, reading

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#14

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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#15

“I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave

tags: humor, love

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#16

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

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#17

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

tags: love

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#18

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

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#19

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Walt Whitman

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#20

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#21

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

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#22

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#23

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

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#24

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

tags: god, good-intentions, humanity, religion

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#25

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

tags: knowledge

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#26

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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#27

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

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#28

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

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#29

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

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#30

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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#31

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

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