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#1

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: history, humor, writing

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#2

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#3

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#4

“Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

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#5

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#6

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

tags: inkheart

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#7

“You don't need to live in a mansion to be happy. All you need is to create the right space, something that says this is who you are, and you can always change who you are, just as you change your environment.”
― Anthea Syrokou, Eventually Julie

tags: contemporary-romance, feelings, inspirational-quotes, sweet-love

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#8

“You don't just become something in life. You evolve and grow; otherwise you get bored and remain stagnant.”
― Anthea Syrokou, Eventually Julie

tags: contemporary-romance-novels, inspirational-quote

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#9

“Most authors would be the first to admit the best of their writing is beyond even them. It comes from someplace outside the conscious realm.”
― K.M. Weiland, Outlining Your Novel

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#10

“You have the distinct appearance of a woman in need of something warm and furry.”
― K.M. Weiland, Dreamlander

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#11

“I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.”
― Michael Ruhlman, Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking

tags: cooking, food, hollandaise, inspirational

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#12

“Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath.”
― Paula Hawkins, Into the Water

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#13

“But life isn't a fairy tale which ends 'happily ever after' just because the last line of the story is written. Hurts have to heal, resentments have to fade, trusts have to mend.”
― Rasana Atreya, Tell a Thousand Lies

tags: life

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#14

“Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

tags: equality, fairness

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#15

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#16

“We're all just walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass

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#17

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion

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#18

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: grief, inspirational

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#19

“Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

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#20

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#21

“This is a forum for readers. Authors walk these halls at their own risk. I’ve been to the Coliseum in Rome. GR is just that. Books are gladiators. Readers are ravenous citizens awaiting their next bite of entertainment, all Caesars with thumbs readied for judgement. Even champions fall prey to sword now and then. And you know what they say about the pen and the sword…the analogy is a bit muddled, but it’s in there somewhere.”
― Willow Madison

tags: authors-on-authors, free-speech, gladiators, goodreads, pen-and-sword, readership, reviews, writers-on-writing

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#22

“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: learning

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#23

“I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. I rang you over and over again and you would never come to the
phone. What part of that gives the impression that I didn’t care?
~Jonah Griggs”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

tags: so-funny, so-true

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#24

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: science

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#25

“Nyara paused, silver hair sparking in the moonlight. "Every part of you was created for a reason. You have to tune out the voice inside of you that says otherwise.”
― Hannah Heath, Sounds of Deceit

tags: ailith, christian-fiction, fantasy, purpose, the-terebinth-tree-chronicles

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#26

“purple does something strange to me”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

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