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#1

“Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: books, stories

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#2

“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

tags: memory

3170 likes

#3

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

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#4

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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#5

“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
― Ernesto Guevara

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#6

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

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#7

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

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#8

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

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#9

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

tags: writing

3929 likes

#10

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151406 likes

#11

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#12

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47064 likes

#13

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

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#14

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

tags: writing-words

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#15

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: steppenwolf

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#16

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

tags: inspirational

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#17

“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
― O. Henry

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#18

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

tags: books, inspirational

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#19

“Take a moment think who would actually miss you if you deactivate all your social networking accounts, whatsapp, BBM etc”
― Anamika Mishra

tags: friends, friendship-quote

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#20

“Be strong enough to say this to yourself -Sins were mine, and so shall I have to pay for it”
― Anamika Mishra, Too Hard To Handle

tags: life, life-lessons

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#21

“A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!”
― Anamika Mishra

tags: writer

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#22

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

tags: beauty, canyons, carvings, nature, perseverance, suffering, windstorms

1563 likes

#23

“The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable. ”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: challenges, life, overcoming, problems

40 likes

#24

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair, life

6530 likes

#25

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

tags: alchemy, writing

2039 likes

#26

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: change, mind, nietzsche

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#27