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    Muriel Spark
    “[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.”
    ― Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent
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    Haruki Murakami
    “The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
    tags: blue, night, night-sky, painted, sky, strokes
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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    Rachel Carson
    “Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.”
    ― Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us
    tags: ocean, sea, water
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    Evelyn Waugh
    “I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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    Philip K. Dick
    “You mean old books?"

    "Stories written before space travel but about space travel."

    "How could there have been stories about space travel before --"

    "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    tags: mars-is-just-as-lonely, meta, science-fiction
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    Werner Herzog
    “What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
    ― Werner Herzog
    tags: dreams, monsters, ocean, sleep
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    Katherine Mansfield
    “The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
    ― Katherine Mansfield
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    Edward St. Aubyn
    “How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought...”
    ― Edward St. Aubyn, Bad News
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    Annie Proulx
    “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
    ― Annie Proulx
    tags: reading, words, writing
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  • #14
    “I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.”
    ― Le Testament d'Orphée
    tags: french, ocean
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing
    tags: ocean, people
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “My soul is full of longing
    for the secret of the sea,
    and the heart of the great ocean
    sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: sea
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    Favel Parrett
    “Steady, steady, we move at half-speed, and when I look up, a cape petrel is just above me, flying with us. Little turns, little wings. I reach my arm up, my fingers stretch. I reach and for a second time the bird comes so close I can almost touch him. I can see his eyes, his tiny face. He looks at me, then rises up with the thermals. Up and up at full speed until I lose him in the light.

    My eyes are full.”
    ― Favel Parrett, When the Night Comes
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    Dodie Smith
    “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: baths, deeds, depression
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran Jr.
    tags: existence, life, water
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: time, timelessness, today, tomorrow, yesterday
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    Margaret Mahy
    “Then, at last, sitting on her stretcher-bed, she took from the very bottom of her pack an old peacock-blue scarf folded around a heavy, square book. She unwrapped it and opened it very carefully, as if guilty secrets might fall from between its pages like pressed flowers. This was Harry's secret. She was a writer.”
    ― Margaret Mahy
    tags: the-tricksters
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    Margaret Mahy
    “Not that it will be easy for you," Miryam continued. "But for the moment - look - it's a wonderful, mysterious thing to be a girl."

    And, looking at her reflection, Laura thought this might be true.”
    ― Margaret Mahy
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Elizabeth Foster
    “If we could bottle resilience such as yours, it would be a powerful elixir, indeed.”
    ― Elizabeth Foster, Esme's Gift
    tags: bravery, courage, resilience
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    Elizabeth Foster
    “Fear can serve a useful purpose, but it can also stop us from getting where we want to go.”
    ― Elizabeth Foster, Esme's Gift
    tags: fear
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    Elizabeth Foster
    “Fame's overrated... friendship's not.”
    ― Elizabeth Foster, Esme's Wish
    tags: fame, friendship
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Albert Camus
    “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

    And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
    ― Albert Camus
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