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“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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#2

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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#3

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#4

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#5

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

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#6

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

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#7

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#8

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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#9

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#10

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

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#11

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

tags: life, paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll

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#12

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos

tags: death, life

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#13

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

tags: life, love

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#14

“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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#15

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#16

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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#17

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed

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#18

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#19

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#20

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

tags: inspirational

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#21

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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#22

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

tags: writing

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#23

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

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#24

“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
― Michael Cunningham

tags: life, on-fiction, writing

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#25

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

tags: writing

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#26

“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#27

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#28

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#29

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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#30

“Write about the emotions you fear the most.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson

tags: writing

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