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    William Goldman
    “Inconceivable!"
    "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: bride, funny, humor, movie, princess
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    Isabel Greenberg
    “Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.”
    ― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
    tags: stars, stories, storytelling, winter
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    William Goldman
    “Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: adoration, ardor, love
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    Penny Reid
    “I’d kiss you but I don’t want our beards to tangle.”
    ― Penny Reid, Truth or Beard
    tags: cletus
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    Drew Magary
    “At 1 A.M. a parking garage feels like a crime scene in waiting.”
    ― Drew Magary, The Hike
    tags: drew-magary, the-hike
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
    ― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
    tags: philosophy
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    William Goldman
    “When I was your age, television was called books.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: book, fantasy, humour
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    George Saunders
    “There was a touch of prairie about the fellow.
    --hans vollman

    Yes.
    --roger bevins iii

    Like stepping into a summer barn late at night.
    --hans vollman

    Or a musty plains office, where some bright candle still burns.
    --roger bevins iii

    Vast. Windswept. New. Sad.
    --hans vollman

    Spacious. Curious. Doom-minded. Ambitious.
    --roger bevins iii

    Back slightly out.
    --hans vollman

    Right boot chafing.
    --roger bevins iii”
    ― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
    tags: abraham-lincoln, character, lincoln, presidents
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    William Goldman
    “We’ll never survive!”
    “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: doubt, humor, optimism, survival
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Billy took off his tri-focals and his coat and his necktie and his shoes, and he closed the venetian blinds and then the drapes, and he lay down on the outside of the coverlet. But sleep would not come. Tears came instead. Billy turned on the Magic Fingers, and he was jiggled as he wept.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: affection, amity, love
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    Isabel Greenberg
    “Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.”
    ― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
    tags: happy-endings, stories, storyteller, writing
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    Penny Reid
    “You’re a siren who doesn’t need to sing.”
    ― Penny Reid, Truth or Beard
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    Richard Kadrey
    “Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child.”
    ― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim
    tags: humor
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    Penny Reid
    “Everything is temporary, Duane. This,” he gestured to our surroundings, “this is temporary. Even mountains fall. Nothing lasts forever. You got a chance at happiness, even for a week, a month, a year? You grab it and you hold on to it for as long as it lasts.”
    ― Penny Reid, Truth or Beard
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    Richard Kadrey
    “Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.”
    ― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim
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    Drew Magary
    “Every book was a door; every page a new place to hide.”
    ― Drew Magary, The Hike
    tags: books, drew-magary, escapism, metaphor, reading, the-hike
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    Drew Magary
    “My favorite part of the party is when the party is over. When I don't feel obligated to have a good time, and I can just sit and chill with whoever's left to chill with, you know?”
    ― Drew Magary, The Hike
    tags: chill, drew-magary, party, the-hike
    21 likes

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    Isabel Greenberg
    “They have a complicated saying that likens snow to love."

    "It speaks of the beauty and the harshness, of watching a perfect flake land on bare skin and melt away in an instant. Of the soft powder giving way underfoot and the creeping chill of ice in your bones turning your lips blue and your fingertips black. Of terrible pain and delirious joy.”
    ― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
    tags: delirious-joy, love, snow, terrible-pain
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    E.M. Carroll
    “Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time...

    But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.”
    ― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
    tags: danger, luck, scary, wolf, woods
    243 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: inspirational, women
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    George Saunders
    “Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth. And now we must lose them.”
    ― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
    128 likes

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    George Saunders
    “All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness.
    (So why grieve?
    The worst of it, for him, is over.)
    Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.    ”
    ― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
    tags: attachment, care, death, death-of-a-child, families, fathers, grief, loss, love, sons
    38 likes

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    Tana French
    “What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie. ”
    ― Tana French, In the Woods
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    Nicholas Eames
    “As individuals they were each of them fallible, discordant as notes without harmony. But as a band they were something more, something perfect in its own intangible way”
    ― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld
    tags: band, friendship
    40 likes

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    Nicholas Eames
    “WHEN WE SEEK TO RULE ONLY OURSELVES, WE ARE EACH OF US KINGS.”
    ― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld
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  • #28
    Sara Teasdale
    “Stephen kissed me in the spring,
    Robin in the fall,
    But Colin only looked at me
    And never kissed at all.

    Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest,
    Robin’s lost in play,
    But the kiss in Colin’s eyes
    Haunts me night and day.”
    ― Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems
    tags: kiss, love, memories, poetry
    1279 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    ― Herbert Bayard Swope
    tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success
    11407 likes



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