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    Marguerite Duras
    “Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
    ― Marguerite Duras
    tags: mothers
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    Anne Lamott
    “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
    ― Anne Lamott
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    Charlie Chaplin
    “Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
    ― Charles Chaplin
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    Rafael Sabatini
    “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
    ― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
    tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines
    2131 likes

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    Hilary Mantel
    “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: book, books, fiction, read, reading, stories, story
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  • #6
    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
    3541 likes

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  • #7
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon
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  • #8
    Maurice Sendak
    “A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
    ― Maurice Sendak
    3697 likes

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  • #9
    Dan Brown
    “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
    ― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
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  • #10
    William Strunk Jr.
    “Omit needless words.”
    ― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly
    tags: writing-words
    1521 likes

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  • #11
    Vikram Chandra
    “The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
    ― Vikram Chandra
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  • #12
    Amelia Earhart
    “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
    ― Amelia Earhart
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  • #13
    Walter Kirn
    “Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
    ― Walter Kirn, Mission to America
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  • #14
    Dennis Lehane
    “There's something ugly about the flawless.”
    ― Dennis Lehane, Sacred
    2066 likes

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  • #15
    Jorge Amado
    “The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
    ― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela
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  • #16
    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Boris Pasternak
    “I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
    ― Boris Pasternak
    tags: life
    2854 likes

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    Jane Addams
    “The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
    ― Jane Addams
    tags: humanity, inequality, rights, security, society
    1104 likes

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  • #19
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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  • #20
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    “My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
    ― Ashleigh Brilliant
    2590 likes



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