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    Stephen King
    “I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. ”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing-terror
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: bereavement, consolation, grief, loss, reincarnation
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    Rod Serling
    “Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.”
    ― Rod Serling
    tags: ideas, writing, writing-life
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    Rod Serling
    “For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own, for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.”
    ― Rod Serling
    tags: prejudice
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"

    "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
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    Dorothy Parker
    “What fresh hell is this?”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
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    Cassandra Clare
    “So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.'
    'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: clockwork-angel, humour, nathaniel-gray, will-herondale, wit
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: complaint, condemnation, criticism, fools, misattributed-ben-franklin
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    J.D. Salinger
    “One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.”
    ― J.D. Salinger
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    George R.R. Martin
    “The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: clever, fools
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: secrets
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    J. Cameron McClain
    “Mist devils spun in the air, dispersed then reassembled, gyrating above the ground, vapor-gamboling.”
    ― J. Cameron McClain, The Five Watchers
    tags: the-five-watchers
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    J. Cameron McClain
    “It watched the strangers with not-eyes. A dead view of the world created by memory and lifeglow.”
    ― J. Cameron McClain, The Five Watchers
    tags: paranormal-thriller
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    J. Cameron McClain
    “You were picking up the vibes off a guy who was supposed to be alive and scaring us, but who was—is—dead and scaring us?”
    ― J. Cameron McClain, The Five Watchers
    tags: paranormal-thriller
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “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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    China Miéville
    “Art Nouveau was coil-envy.”
    ― China Miéville , Kraken
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    China Miéville
    “Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites.”
    ― China Miéville, Kraken
    tags: goss-and-subby, kraken
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    Cassandra Clare
    “You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will."

    "There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: ferret
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. ”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
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    Stephen King
    “you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Terry Tempest Williams
    “I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words.”
    ― Terry Tempest Williams
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    “There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”
    ― Mario Savio
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The minute I heard my first love story,
    I started looking for you, not knowing
    how blind that was.
    Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
    They're in each other all along.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi
    tags: lovers
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