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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
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    Galileo Galilei
    “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
    ― Galileo Galilei
    tags: inspirational
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    André Breton
    “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
    ― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
    tags: love, madness
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    Amy Tan
    “We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
    tags: dream, fate, hope
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    W.H. Auden
    “Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
    ― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter
    tags: poetry
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    Henry Miller
    “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
    ― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
    tags: books, power
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    “Love is a rebellious bird,
    that nobody can tame,
    and you call him quite in vain,
    if it suits him not to come.”
    ― Ludovic Halévy
    tags: love, opera
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    Francesco Petrarca
    “Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
    ― Francesco Petrarca
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    Anne Lamott
    “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
    ― Anne Lamott
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    Dennis Lehane
    “There's something ugly about the flawless.”
    ― Dennis Lehane, Sacred
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    Katharine Lee Bates
    “O beautiful for spacious skies
    for amber waves of grain”
    ― Katharine Lee Bates
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    Maria Montessori
    “Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
    ― Maria Montessori
    tags: imagination
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    Anna Deavere Smith
    “Each person has a literature inside them.”
    ― Anna Deavere Smith
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    Walker Evans
    “Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
    ― Walker Evans
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    Will Rogers
    “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational
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    Joe Raposo
    “Sunny day
    Sweepin' the clouds away
    On my way to where the air is sweet”
    ― Joe Raposo
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    Chris Abani
    “What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
    ― Chris Abani
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    Amy Hempel
    “We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”
    ― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories
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    Amy Hempel
    “I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.”
    ― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories
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    Amy Hempel
    “if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.”
    ― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories
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    Amy Hempel
    “I get rational when I panic.”
    ― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories
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    Amy Hempel
    “They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.”
    ― Amy Hempel
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    A.A. Milne
    “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
    ― A.A. Milne
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    Harriet Prescott Spofford
    “The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.”
    ― Harriet Prescott Spofford, The Amber Gods and Other Stories
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    Lillian Hellman
    “People change and forget to tell each other.”
    ― Lillian Hellman
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones
    tags: humor, obedience
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: fate, humor, simile
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    Dee Brown
    “Nothing lives long
    Only the earth and mountains”
    ― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: fair, life
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    Henry Fielding
    “I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
    ― Henry Fielding
    tags: contentment, inner-peace
    1417 likes



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