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#1

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

tags: book, books, fiction, read, reading, stories, story

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#2

“Every great love starts with a great story...”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: romance, storytelling

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#3

“I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

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#4

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: heartache, love

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#5

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

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#6

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

tags: happiness

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#7

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
― Will Shortz

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#8

“Keep on truckin'”
― R. Crumb

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#9

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

tags: imagination

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#10

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

tags: love

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#11

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

tags: change, past, present

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#12

“Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”
― Antonin Artaud

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#13

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

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#14

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

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#15

“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add

tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work

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#16

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding

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#17

“He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly.

It’s time to jump.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

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#18

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

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#19

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

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#20

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

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#21

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

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#22

“One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”
― John Cowper Powys

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#23

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen

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#24

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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#25

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
― Tracy Chevalier

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#26

“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
― Michael Crichton

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#27

“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

tags: happiness

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#28

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

tags: future, grammar, language, past

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#29

“Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!”
― Naoko Takeuchi

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#30

“I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon”
― Naoko Takeuchi

tags: sailor-moon

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