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    Philip Pullman
    “I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight...”
    ― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials - The Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
    tags: love, physics
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    Philip Pullman
    “Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all”
    ― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: humbert-humbert, love
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: lies, life, relationship
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  • #7
    Sarah Dessen
    “funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
    tags: song-lyrics, storytelling
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    Stephen King
    “There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: great-writing, on-writing, stories, storytelling
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    Alan Moore
    “Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: on-fiction, parables, storytelling
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    Willa Cather
    “Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
    ― Willa Cather
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  • #11
    Lewis Carroll
    “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: adventure, explanations, patience, storytelling
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    Doris Lessing
    “There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
    ― Doris May Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, storytelling, truth, truth-telling
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  • #13
    Margaret Atwood
    “He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
    tags: death, love, murder
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Every great love starts with a great story...”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: romance, storytelling
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling
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  • #17
    Nora Roberts
    “You can fix anything but a blank page.”
    ― Nora Roberts
    tags: on-writing, storytelling, writing
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    John Green
    “Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

    [Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
    ― John Green
    tags: alone, creative-process, eye-contact, introverts, profession, story, storytelling, writing
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: storytelling
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    Mary Higgins Clark
    “When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
    ― Mary Higgins Clark
    tags: on-writing, revenge, storytelling
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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: storytelling
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works
    tags: history, storytelling
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  • #23
    Joan Didion
    “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
    ― Joan Didion, The White Album
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  • #24
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “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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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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  • #27
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #28
    André Gide
    “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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  • #29
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
    42405 likes



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