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    George Santayana
    “Memory... is an internal rumor.”
    ― George Santayana
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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
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
    tags: greatness
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    If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
    “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
    ― Chinua Achebe
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    Maya Angelou
    “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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    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
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    Bill Watterson
    “The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: writing
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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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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
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    Oscar Wilde
    “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: experience, inspirational, pain, wisdom, wounds
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    Homer
    “How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
    ― Homer
    tags: wisdom
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”
    ― Khalil Gibran
    tags: wisdom
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen
    tags: criticism
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    Phillip C. McGraw
    “Life's managed, not cured. ”
    ― Phillip C. Mcgraw
    tags: inspiration, inspirational, life, philosophy, psychology, self-help, wisdom
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen
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    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
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    Stephen King
    “I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
    ― Stephen King
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    Stephen King
    “I tend to scare myself.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: fear
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    Stephen King
    “If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: library-purgatory
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    Alice Sebold
    “Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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    Alice Sebold
    “Nothing is ever certain.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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    Alice Sebold
    “She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. ”
    ― Alice Sebold
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    Alice Sebold
    “I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
    tags: camera
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    Alice Sebold
    “I left my mark on that man.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    J.D. Salinger
    “It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: bluffing, confusion
    2114 likes



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