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#1

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

2995 likes

#2

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

tags: courage, talent

4620 likes

#3

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter

2625 likes

#4

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17574 likes

#5

“I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.”
― Herman Melville

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#6

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

4012 likes

#7

“I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.”
― Brothers Grimm

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#8

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

tags: expression, finding-your-voice, poetry

2626 likes

#9

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

3195 likes

#10

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

2727 likes

#11

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir

tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness

3667 likes

#12

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

2336 likes

#13

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset

5314 likes

#14

“O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!”
― Gary Snyder

983 likes

#15

“And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.”
― Suzan-Lori Parks

1074 likes

#16

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

1697 likes

#17

“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

2188 likes

#18

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

4146 likes

#19

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

3575 likes

#20

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

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#21

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

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#22

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Walt Whitman

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#23

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

3795 likes

#24

“Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
He liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.

But could a flame ever burn
for a match and a stick?
It did quite literally;
he burned up quick.”
― Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

tags: absurd

438 likes

#25

“Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.”
― Tim Burton, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

968 likes

#26

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
― Tim Burton

2887 likes

#27

“Good morning starshine the earth says hello....”
― Tim Burton, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

tags: movie-quotes

307 likes

#28

“Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.”
― Tim Burton

232 likes

#29