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    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    ― François Rabelais
    tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter
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    Ray Bradbury
    “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: censorship
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    Bob Newhart
    “I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
    ― Bob Newhart
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    Christa Wolf
    “Between killing and dying there's a third way: live”
    ― Christa Wolf, Kassandra
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    “If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
    ― Ed Sullivan
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
    tags: folly, preference, wisdom
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    Wallace Stevens
    “I do not know which to prefer,
    The beauty of inflections
    Or the beauty of innuendos
    The blackbird whistling
    Or just after.”
    ― Wallace Stevens
    tags: poetry
    205 likes

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    Edward P. Jones
    “We are all worthy of one another.”
    ― Edward P. Jones, The Known World
    tags: love, worthiness
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    Harvey Pekar
    “Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
    ― Harvey Pekar
    tags: life, writing
    2189 likes

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    L. Frank Baum
    “Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
    ― L. Frank Baum
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    Katherine Mansfield
    “The mind I love must have wild places.”
    ― Katherine Mansfield
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    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
    tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words
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    Adam Lindsay Gordon
    “Life is mostly froth and bubble,
    Two things stand like stone.
    Kindness in another's trouble,
    Courage in your own.”
    ― Adam Lindsay Gordon
    tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer
    1961 likes

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    Zadie Smith
    “You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
    ― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
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    Beryl Markham
    “A map says to you.
    Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
    I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
    ― Beryl Markham
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    Henry Green
    “The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
    ― Henry Green
    tags: highlight, revision, secrets, storytelling, style, writer, writers
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
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    Nuruddin Farah
    “I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”
    ― Nuruddin Farah
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    Marilynne Robinson
    “There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
    ― Marilynne Robinson, Home
    tags: faith, inspirational
    1331 likes

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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Donna Tartt
    “Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    David Sedaris
    “Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.”
    ― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
    tags: humor
    1589 likes

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    Roland Barthes
    “I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
    ― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
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    Roland Barthes
    “Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”
    ― Roland Barthes
    tags: death, grief, loss, mourning, suffering
    586 likes

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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse
    tags: ageing, inifinity, life, old-age
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    Philip Levine
    “Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
    ― Philip Levine
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    Philip José Farmer
    “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
    ― Philip José Farmer
    tags: imagination, writing
    2554 likes

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    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    ― Colette
    tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom
    3943 likes

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  • #30
    Chris Rock
    “Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
    ― Chris Rock
    1283 likes



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