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#1

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

tags: love, realization

1822 likes

#2

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

tags: books, friendship

4243 likes

#3

“Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Sketches and Travels, Etc.

tags: dress, good-humor, society

1229 likes

#4

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

4099 likes

#5

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth

6443 likes

#6

“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

tags: adventure

1441 likes

#7

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: reading, words, writing

5373 likes

#8

“If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.”
― Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

1121 likes

#9

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

tags: alchemy, writing

2040 likes

#10

“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

1209 likes

#11

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

3908 likes

#12

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

555 likes

#13

“I am a part of all that I have met.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

tags: attitude, inspirational

2353 likes

#14

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
― Pablo Picasso

1322 likes

#15

“That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.”
― Val McDermid, The Torment of Others

tags: books

16 likes

#16

“Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.”
― Val McDermid

tags: humor, sarcasm

48 likes

#17

“He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.”
― Val McDermid, Kick Back

tags: humor

29 likes

#18

“Finnie kicked a packet of washing powder. "Why am I surrounded by morons? Did I tick the wrong bloody box for room service? I wanted scrambled eggs on toast, but they delivered a family-sized bag of idiots!”
― Stuart MacBride, Blind Eye

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#19

“Blah, blah, blah, regret to inform you that DI Gray has tendered his resignation; blah, blah, blah; opportunity to reward performance; blah, blah, blah; suggestions by next Wednesday.

McPherson had scribbled, "BEATTIE?" in the margin in red biro.

Idiot.

Logan stuck the memo back in the drawer. Detective Sergeant Beattie couldn't arrest his own backside with three patrol cars and a search warrant.”
― Stuart MacBride, Blind Eye

16 likes

#20

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

3852 likes

#21

“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
― Sophocles

1073 likes

#22

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

tags: life, pain

6210 likes

#23

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

16158 likes

#24

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life

3132 likes

#25

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
― Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

tags: fear, heart, love, regret

2259 likes

#26

“A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”
― Ogden Nash, The Private Dining-room and Other Verses

tags: dog, door

622 likes

#27

“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

tags: horror, irony

1651 likes

#28

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: protection, silence, speech

2907 likes

#29

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

6235 likes

#30

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

tags: intelligence, mind, poverty

4093 likes

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