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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder.
    Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table.
    I spent my life learning to feel less.
    Every day I felt less.
    Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
    You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
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    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
    2131 likes

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    William James
    “To change one’s life:
    1. Start immediately.
    2. Do it flamboyantly.
    3. No exceptions.”
    ― William James
    tags: change
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: chaos, creativity, invention, originality, writing
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  • #6
    Elizabeth Bowen
    “But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.”
    ― Elizabeth Bowen
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    Sherman Alexie
    “I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.”
    ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
    tags: humor, insightful, inspirational, insult
    460 likes

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  • #8
    Tom Clancy
    “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
    ― Tom Clancy
    tags: life
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  • #9
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: inspirational, life, work
    2360 likes

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  • #10
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
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  • #11
    Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
    “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
    ― Eleanor Hodgman Porter
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  • #12
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of paper; all around me are sketches for sculptures, small drawings that seem like moths fluttering against the windows, beating their wings to escape from this tiny space.. Every day the ideas come more reluctantly, as though they know I will starve them and stunt their growth.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
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  • #13
    Patti Smith
    “No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
    ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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    V (formerly Eve Ensler)
    “Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.”
    ― Eve Ensler
    tags: autonomy, carpe-diem, cherish, enjoy-life, self-empowerment, self-reliance, solitude
    1421 likes

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    Tom McCarthy
    “All great enterprises are about logistics. Not genius or inspiration or flights of imagination, skill or cunning, but logistics.”
    ― Tom McCarthy, Remainder
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  • #16
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Marilynne Robinson
    “Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.”
    ― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
    tags: loneliness
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: cheese, poetry
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    Jean Cocteau
    “What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”
    ― Jean Cocteau
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  • #20
    Martha Gellhorn
    “Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.”
    ― Martha Gellhorn, Travels With Myself and Another
    tags: overcoming, self-esteem, survival
    105 likes

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  • #21
    Ouida
    “Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.
    --"Wanda”
    ― Ouida
    tags: comprehension, sympathy, weakness, women
    43 likes

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  • #22
    William Inge
    “Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.”
    ― William Inge
    tags: boredom
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  • #23
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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  • #24
    Paul Theroux
    “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
    ― Paul Theroux
    tags: travel
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  • #25
    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
    11833 likes

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    Marguerite Yourcenar
    “He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.”
    ― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
    100 likes

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  • #27
    Mercedes Lackey
    “I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.”
    ― Mercedes Lackey, Owlknight
    tags: learning, life
    26 likes

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  • #28
    Lauren Oliver
    “The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
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  • #29
    Richelle Mead
    “What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was it having absolute faith that someone was there at your back? Was it knowing someone so well that they instantly understood why you did the things you did—and shared those same beliefs?”
    ― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
    tags: faith, love
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  • #30
    Dawn Powell
    “Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”
    ― Dawn Powell
    67 likes



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