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    Sadie Jones
    “It's not a romance, it's a love story.”
    ― Sadie Jones
    tags: book, characters, love, romance
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Jasper Fforde
    “After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots
    tags: reading
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Susan Sontag
    “To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
    tags: hit, sages, thinking, violence
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
    tags: strength
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
    tags: paris
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: patriotism, war
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    Amy Tan
    “We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
    tags: dream, fate, hope
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    Jules Renard
    “The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”
    ― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard
    tags: free
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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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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    Virginia Woolf
    “Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: anonymous, poetry, woman
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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    William Shakespeare
    “All that glisters is not gold;
    Often have you heard that told:
    Many a man his life hath sold
    But my outside to behold:
    Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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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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    Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad
    “Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: humor
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    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
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    Irving Stone
    “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
    ― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
    tags: books, friendship
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: crazy, salinger
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
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    China Miéville
    “Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.”
    ― China Miéville, The Scar
    tags: healing, injury, inspirational, recovery, scar, scars
    468 likes



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