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    Lorrie Moore
    “One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
    ― Lorrie Moore, Like Life
    tags: hide, protect, shelter
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    Anchee Min
    “The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree”
    ― Anchee Min, Empress Orchid
    tags: luck
    771 likes

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    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    ― Moliere
    tags: inspirational, patience
    2687 likes

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    Patricia Highsmith
    “Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
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    Federico Fellini
    “All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
    ― Federico Fellini
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    Louis Menand
    “Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.”
    ― Louis Menand
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151543 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71708 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
    41008 likes

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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130233 likes

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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Francis Bacon
    “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: hope
    2001 likes

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    Lauren Oliver
    “I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
    tags: amor-deliria-nervosa, love
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: activism, service
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  • #15
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: funny
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    “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres
    tags: age, exercise, family, grandmothers, grandparents, humor, walking
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    “You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, The Funny Thing Is...
    tags: book, writing
    1244 likes

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  • #18
    My course is set for an uncharted sea.
    “My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
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    Colette
    “I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
    ― Colette
    1990 likes

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    Kat Howard
    “Becoming hurts.”
    ― Kat Howard
    tags: beautiful-writing, transformation, truth
    55 likes

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    Norman Mailer
    “I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
    ― Norman Mailer
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    Emily Dickinson
    “A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    ― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story
    tags: acceptance, life, love, worth
    3776 likes

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    John Guare
    “It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
    ― John Guare, Landscape of the Body
    tags: future, hope
    3628 likes

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    Mary Leakey
    “Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
    ― Mary Leakey
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    Sinclair Lewis
    “We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
    ― Sinclair Lewis
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    “If you hide your heart, he will never be able to take it from you.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
    tags: ignite-me, leila-warner, tahereh-mafi
    200 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135560 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
    47062 likes



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