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    Isabel Allende
    “Write what should not be forgotten.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: forgotten, on-writing, writing, writing-advice
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it. ”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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    Mark Schultz
    “To be successful in an area, you have to respect the people who are successful in that area, or you are disrespecting the very thing that you want to become.”
    ― Mark Schultz, Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest forOlympic Gold
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    Werner Herzog
    “Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.”
    ― Werner Herzog
    tags: cinema, filmmakers, filmmaking, reading, werner-herzog
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    John Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
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    William Paul Young
    “True love never forces.”
    ― William P. Young, The Shack
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    William Paul Young
    “Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.”
    ― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack
    tags: life, relationships
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    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    Emma Donoghue
    “Stories are a different kind of true.”
    ― Emma Donoghue, Room
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Stephen King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, children
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
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    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
    tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words
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    Christopher Morley
    “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
    ― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls
    tags: bibliophilia, books
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    John Fowles
    “The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.”
    ― John Fowles, The Magus
    tags: life, questions
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    John Fowles
    “I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.”
    ― John Fowles, The Magus
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    Georges Bataille
    “The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
    ― Georges Bataille
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    David Benioff
    “Start admiring the vastness of the forest and a tree will surely fall on you, bashing your skull for the crime of perspective.”
    ― David Benioff, The 25th Hour
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    Aron Ralston
    “It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.”
    ― Aron Ralston, Between a Rock and a Hard Place
    tags: film, letting-go, life, moving-on, rock, rut
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    Aron Ralston
    “Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.”
    ― Aron Ralston, Between a Rock and a Hard Place
    tags: aron-ralston
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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    Iain Reid
    “We’re never inside someone else’s head. We can never really know someone else’s thoughts. And it’s thoughts that count. Thought is reality. Actions can be faked.”
    ― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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    Nick Hornby
    “I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.”
    ― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch
    tags: fever-pitch, fooball, humour, life
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    Nick Hornby
    “There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.”
    ― Nick Hornby, About a Boy
    tags: adversity, depression, hard-times, inspirational, life
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    Nick Hornby
    “This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.”
    ― Nick Hornby, About a Boy
    tags: about-a-boy, love, nick-hornby, self-hate
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    Nick Hornby
    “You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.”
    ― Nick Hornby, About a Boy
    tags: about-a-boy, change, nick-hornby, relationships
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    Nick Hornby
    “There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.”
    ― Nick Hornby, About a Boy
    tags: about-a-boy, love, lucky, nick-hornby, people
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    Nick Hornby
    “It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.”
    ― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good
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