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    C.S. Pacat
    “My scorn and contempt,' said Laurent, 'are not in need of your leniency. Lord Touars, you face me in my own kingdom, you inhabit my lands, and you breathe at my pleasure. Make your own choice.”
    S.U. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

  • #2
    Cecil Baldwin
    “The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles in as the gentle present.”
    Cecil Baldwin

  • #3
    Natalie Babbitt
    “I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know, but something interesting - something that's all mine. Something that would make some kind of difference in the world. It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.”
    Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

  • #4
    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “Well roared, lion.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #6
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #7
    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    Anais Nin

  • #8
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #9
    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #10
    Walt Whitman
    “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #11
    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #12
    Walt Whitman
    “Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #13
    Walt Whitman
    “We were together. I forget the rest.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #14
    Walt Whitman
    “I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
    Walt Whitman

  • #15
    Walt Whitman
    “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #16
    Walt Whitman
    “Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #17
    Walt Whitman
    “Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #18
    Walt Whitman
    “I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ”
    Walt Whitman

  • #19
    Walt Whitman
    “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #20
    Walt Whitman
    “Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.”
    Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

  • #21
    Walt Whitman
    “Peace is always beautiful.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #22
    Walt Whitman
    “I exist as I am, that is enough,
    If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
    And if each and all be aware I sit content.
    One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself,
    And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
    I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #23
    Walt Whitman
    “And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #24
    Walt Whitman
    “I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
    And what I assume you shall assume,
    For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #25
    Ray Bradbury
    “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #26
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #27
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #28
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
    Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: pomo

  • #29
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?”
    Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

  • #30
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.”
    Jorge Luis Borges



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