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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
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    Mark Twain
    “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
    tags: travel
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: goals, journey, travel
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    David Mitchell
    “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: inspirational, travel
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    Judith Thurman
    “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”
    ― Judith Thurman
    tags: dreamer, explore, travel
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “To travel is to live.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
    tags: life, travel
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: glitter, journey, shine, tolkien, travel, wander, wanderlust
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: life, unfairness
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: religion
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: barbara-kingsolver, the-poisonwood-bible
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: funny, humor, love, poisonwood-bible
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian.”
    ― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Wounded Healer
    tags: imitation
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood
    tags: imitation, influence, inspiration
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    François-René de Chateaubriand
    “An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”
    ― François-René de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion
    tags: imitation, originality, writers, writing
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    Ngaio Marsh
    “Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.”
    ― Ngaio Marsh, Death on the Air and Other Stories
    tags: imitation, models, reading, style, writing
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    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
    “To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.”
    ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books
    tags: course-of-action, imitation, opposite
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    J. Krishnamurti
    “Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.”
    ― J. Krishnamurti
    tags: autonomy, imitation, knowledge
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    Eric Hoffer
    “When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
    ― Eric Hoffer
    tags: imitation
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
    tags: absurdity, behaviour, conduct, imitation
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    “Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities." - Alfred L. Kroeber”
    ― Alfred L. Kroeber
    tags: anthropology, humanities, science
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    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
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    Mandy Hale
    “You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
    ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
    tags: adversity, authenticity, being-yourself, boldness, breaking-the-rules, chances, dance, dancing, finding-yourself, fitting-in, getting-older, go-against-the-grain, happiness, journey-of-life, laughter, lessons, lessons-learned, life-lessons, living-life-on-your-own-terms, loving-yourself, non-conformity, overcoming-adversity, positive-thinking, road-less-traveled, rules, standing-out, taking-chances, the-single-woman, uniqueness
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    Jim Jarmusch
    “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

    [MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
    ― Jim Jarmusch
    tags: authenticity, context, creative-process, creativity, imitation, inspiration, originality, postmodernism, rules, sense-of-wonder, sources, transformation
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