Quotes - Laura Sofonea (laurasofonea) (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Showing 1-30 of 53

#1

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

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#2

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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#3

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#4

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: happiness, inspiration, life

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#5

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

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#6

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

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#7

“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

tags: on-writing, writing

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#8

“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: orthodoxy

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#9

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
― George Orwell

tags: courage, truth

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#10

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: endurance, life, loss, love

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#11

“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: happiness, love

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#12

“Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#13

“No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.”
― Saint-Exuperay

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#14

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exuper

tags: awakening, living, unknown

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#15

“Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.”
― Paul Simon

tags: longing, love

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#16

“You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.”
― Paul Simon

tags: pen, writer, writers-on-writing

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#17

“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

tags: friendship

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#18

“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

tags: love

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#19

“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

tags: happiness

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#20

“She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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#21

“But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

tags: birth-of-desire, birth-of-ideas, contrast, feel-inspired, get-ideas, get-inspired, inspiration, where-ideas-come-from

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#22

“Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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#23

“If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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#24

“I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

tags: france, rome

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#25

“But you can love more than just one person, can't you?”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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#26

“He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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#27

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

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#28

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#29

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

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#30

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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