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  • #1
    “The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.
    Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you
    find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
    ― Debbi Fields
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  • #2
    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: courage, talent
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    John Boyle O'Reilly
    “Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you;
    Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
    Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
    Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.”
    ― John Boyle O'Reilly, Life of John Boyle O'Reilly
    tags: advice, friends, inspirational, judgement, motivational, poetry, praise, safety, silence, true, trust, work
    600 likes

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  • #4
    Stephen King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
    6986 likes

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  • #5
    Richard Wright
    “Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
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  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
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  • #7
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #9
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #10
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #11
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31524 likes

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  • #12
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: inspiration
    4194 likes

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  • #13
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    tags: on-writing, reading, writing
    1380 likes

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  • #15
    Isaac Marion
    “Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.”
    ― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
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  • #16
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: communication, misattributed, misunderstanding
    1092 likes

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  • #17
    Gustave Flaubert
    “It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
    tags: love, relationships
    456 likes

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  • #18
    Doug Wright
    “Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”
    ― Doug Wright, Quills
    tags: communication, conversation, diplomacy
    345 likes

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  • #19
    Ernest Hemingway
    “If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: writing
    254 likes

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  • #20
    Kristen Ashley
    “Men understand direct communication. It's bitches who speak in code.”
    ― Kristen Ashley, Knight
    tags: truth-telling
    275 likes

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  • #21
    Lawrence Clark Powell
    “Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
    ― Lawrence Clark Powell
    tags: communication
    213 likes

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  • #22
    W.B. Yeats
    “Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
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  • #23
    Charles Bukowski
    “Beware
    Those Who
    Are ALWAYS
    READING
    BOOKS”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
    314 likes

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  • #24
    Alan Kay
    “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
    ― Alan Kay
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  • #25
    Lemony Snicket
    “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: libraries, reading
    4594 likes

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    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    ― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story
    tags: acceptance, life, love, worth
    3776 likes

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  • #27
    Martin Luther
    “God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.”
    ― Martin Luther
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  • #28
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
    37989 likes

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  • #29
    Irwin Shaw
    “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
    ― Irwin Shaw
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  • #30
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
    19430 likes

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  • #31
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
    3825 likes



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