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#1

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

tags: truth

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#2

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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#3

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines

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#4

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: demographics

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#5

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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#6

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: classics

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#7

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#8

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain

tags: courage

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#9

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
― Mark Twain

tags: morals

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#10

“It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

tags: bravery, dog, famous, inspirational, misattributed-dwight-eisenhower, misattributed-mark-twain, valour

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#11

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

tags: starting, working

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#12

“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
― Ben Franklin

tags: inspirational, proverb

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#13

“When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.”
― Ben Franklin

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#14

“If you FAIL to PLAN. You PLAN to FAIL.”
― Ben Franklin

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#15

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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#16

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#17

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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#18

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: trust, truth

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#19

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#20

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
― ernest hemingway

tags: courage

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#21

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#22

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

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#23

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

tags: books, metaphor, soul

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#24

“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

tags: truths

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#25

“This is a terrible place to die in.
Where's a good one?”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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#26

“Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

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#27

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#28

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

tags: paranoia, proverbs, wit

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#29

“A screaming comes across the sky.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

tags: first-sentence

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#30

“Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

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