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    John Dryden
    “Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
    But good men starve for want of impudence.”
    ― John Dryden, The Poetical Works of John Dryden
    tags: boldness, impudence, knaves
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    Stephen King
    “And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.”
    ― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers
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    Stephen King
    “Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.”
    ― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers
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    Jaycee Dugard
    “I learned in therapy the word "No" is a complete sentence.”
    ― Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life
    tags: memoir
    168 likes

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    Jaycee Dugard
    “I don't believe in hate. To me it wastes too much time. People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.”
    ― Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life
    tags: inspirational
    116 likes

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    Jaycee Dugard
    “I enjoy life so much more now, and I try hard to appreciate each and every day, but deep down I am still afraid it will be taken away.”
    ― Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life
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    Jaycee Dugard
    “I love metaphors and she has come up with the idea of lighting candles to symbolize my past, present, and future. My past and present were the two candles we started with; she would ask me what I would like to start with or deal with today. I would light up either my past or my present depending on the answer. During the last few sessions we've used the candles I've noticed my past melting more and more and becoming duller and duller in light.”
    ― Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life
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    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
    “To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
    ― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms
    tags: content, materialism
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  • #9
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
    tags: evil, judgement, right
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  • #10
    Diane Duane
    “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
    ― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
    tags: books, reading
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  • #11
    Carolyn Marsden
    “From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy”
    ― Carolyn Marsden, The Buddha's Diamonds
    tags: adversity, hope, inspirational, joy
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    Michelle Belanger
    “Faith is a quiet certainty that there is both a higher purpose to life and a higher power that oversees that purpose. Faith is knowing that we do not have to go it alone during our darkest hours and, even when we feel utterly victimized and weak, there is still something brighter, purer, and more potent than anything we can imagine that cares enough to reach out and offer a shoulder for us to lean upon. The object of faith takes many forms and many names, but the universal truth is faith itself.”
    ― Michelle Belanger, The Ghost Hunter's Survival Guide: Protection Techniques for Encounters With The Paranormal
    tags: faith
    16 likes

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    Willa Cather
    “The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”
    ― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
    tags: desire
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    John Milton
    “For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
    ― John Milton, Areopagitica
    tags: books, censorship, ideas, intellect
    1531 likes

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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
    ― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: love, writing
    749 likes

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
    12164 likes

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  • #20
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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  • #21
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: happiness
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  • #22
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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    Sylvia Townsend Warner
    “It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
    ― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes
    tags: aging, death-and-dying
    1145 likes

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  • #24
    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa, Poems
    tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring
    2367 likes

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  • #25
    Vincent van Gogh
    “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
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  • #26
    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    ― Nikolai V. Gogol
    tags: humor, sadness
    3087 likes

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    Donna George Storey
    “I bow my head submissively and see that my chest is heaving, already dotted with the telltale flush of sexual arousal.”
    ― Donna George Storey, Amorous Woman
    tags: erotica, erotica-romance, japan, tourism, travel
    3 likes

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    Donna George Storey
    “And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems.”
    ― Donna George Storey, Amorous Woman
    tags: culture, japan, poetry, tourism, travel
    3 likes

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  • #29
    Dorothy Allison
    “Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
    ― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
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  • #30
    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
    2132 likes



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