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#1

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

tags: writing

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#2

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

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#3

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence

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#4

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

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#5

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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#6

“In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.

- Bad Blood”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell

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#7

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

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#8

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

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#9

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

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#10

“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

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#11

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books-reading

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#12

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: draco-malfoy, stupidity

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#13

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

tags: inspirational

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#14

“Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”
― Louise Erdrich

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#15

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

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#16

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

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#17

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

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#18

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

tags: facts, truth

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#19

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

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#20

“One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
― Jose Rizal

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#21

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#22

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

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#23

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier

tags: inspirational, life-lessons

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#24

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

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#25

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: love, music

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#26

“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
― Eric Carle

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#27

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

tags: life-truths, reality-check

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#28

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

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#29

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: life

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#30

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

tags: knowledge

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