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    Orhan Pamuk
    “How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, Snow
    tags: compassion, experience, understanding
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: dreams, future, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: fashion
    2682 likes

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    Mai Ghoussoub
    “Words don't kill; humans do.”
    ― Mai Ghoussoub
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    Djuna Barnes
    “I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.”
    ― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
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    Bono
    “Music can change the world because it can change people.”
    ― Bono
    tags: music, power-of-music
    275 likes

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    Chris Bohjalian
    “But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?”
    ― Chris Bohjalian, The Sandcastle Girls
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    Carol Hovsepian
    “Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.”
    ― Carol Hovsepian, The Poet and The Painter
    tags: action, adventurous, art, educational, illustrated-children-s-book, poet
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  • #10
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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  • #11
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Chris Bohjalian
    “When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.”
    ― Chris Bohjalian, The Sandcastle Girls
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    Eva Hoffman
    “The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.”
    ― Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
    tags: joy, language, writing
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    Jonathan Lockwood Huie
    “Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.”
    ― Jonathan Lockwood Huie
    tags: blooms, hearts-at-stake, joy, mind
    33 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books
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    Karen Joy Fowler
    “In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.”
    ― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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    Adrienne Rich
    “Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.”
    ― Adrienne Rich, Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
    tags: poetry, poets, poets-on-poetry, women-poets
    56 likes

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    Lord Byron
    “But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
    Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
    That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”
    ― Lord George Gordon Byron
    tags: liberty, words
    459 likes

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    William Saroyan
    “It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.”
    ― William Saroyan
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
    23764 likes

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  • #21
    “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”
    ― Roseanne Barr
    tags: feminism, power, women
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  • #22
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
    23582 likes

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  • #23
    Bob Marley
    “Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright.”
    ― Bob Marley
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101562 likes

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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: life-memories
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    Joumana Haddad
    “Surviving war is an excellent training process. If it weren't so brutal, I 'd recommend it as an excellent start-up course in life. I feel that over years of endurance, hard work and perseverance of determination and conviction, of claiming our rights to stay alive, to be free and to be ourselves, of fighting the biggest wars as much as the smaller ones, our will can indeed move mountains for us.”
    ― Joumana Haddad, I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman
    tags: life-lessons, war
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    Elizabeth Warren
    “Balancing your money is the key to having enough.”
    ― Elizabeth Warren Amelia Warren Tyagin
    tags: finances, money, money-happiness, money-issues, money-management, money-tools
    33 likes

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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her.
    "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me.
    "The big show is inside my head," I said.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
    334 likes

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  • #31
    Lois Lowry
    “It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
    ― Lois Lowry
    2370 likes



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