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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
    tags: reading
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
    tags: the-voyage-out, virginia-woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: beauty, christiana-rossetti, inspiration, literature, vain, victorian-literature, virginia-woolf
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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    Susan Sontag
    “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."

    [Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: attention, observation, perspicacity, writers, writing
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    Red Haircrow
    “Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.”
    ― Red Haircrow
    tags: creative-process, creative-thinking, creative-writing, creativity, individuality, life, life-lessons, reality, writers, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart, writing-process
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    Lili St. Crow
    “Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch.”
    ― Lili St. Crow
    tags: funny, funny-as-hell, funny-quotes, funny-stuff, humor, humor-work, humorous, humour, wisdom, writer, writers-block, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-philosophy
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    Lilith Saintcrow
    “Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
    ― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels
    tags: girls, inspirational, pretty, strength, women
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    Susan Sontag
    “10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: cruelty, humanity, mankind, mercy
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Jane Austen
    “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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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
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    Stephen King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    ― Alice Hoffman
    tags: books
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    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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    Hannah Arendt
    “The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”
    ― Hannah Arendt
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    Hannah Arendt
    “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
    ― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind
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    Hannah Arendt
    “There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.”
    ― Hannah Arendt
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    Katherine Mansfield
    “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”
    ― Katherine Mansfield
    tags: moving-on, regret
    417 likes

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    Ansel Adams
    “You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: art, photography
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    Harold Bloom
    “Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
    ― Harold Bloom
    tags: books, literature, reading, solitude, words
    450 likes



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