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#1

“O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter / And on her daughter / They wash their feet in soda water.”
― T.S. Eliot

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#2

“Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.”
― Dylan Thomas

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#3

“To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart”
― Alexander Pope

tags: art, poetry

90 likes

#4

“Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#5

“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”
― Charles Dickens

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#6

“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
― George Eliot

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#7

“You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

76 likes

#8

“The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.”
― Roland Barthes

98 likes

#9

“It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.”
― Graham Greene

tags: writing, writing-philosophy

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#10

“In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.”
― Aldous Huxley

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#11

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: disposition, intimacy, marianne-dashwood, openness, opportunity, self-disclosure, time

831 likes

#12

“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”
― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

94 likes

#13

“There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.”
― Herman Melville

5 likes

#14

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

1150 likes

#15

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression

6773 likes

#16

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
― Alice Walker

tags: art, bad, good, writing

704 likes

#17

“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

29 likes

#18

“Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.”
― Mikhail Lermontov

20 likes

#19

“Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Only enemies speak the truth.”
― Stephen King

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#20

“Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”
― Franz Kafka

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#21

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

1765 likes

#22

“Love cannot be measured by its duration...”
― Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy

61 likes

#23

“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.”
― Muriel Spark

34 likes

#24

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-facts

1807 likes

#25

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”
― John Keats

tags: imagination, love, truth

950 likes

#26

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

847 likes

#27

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: conflict, politics, war

2085 likes

#28

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow

5660 likes

#29

“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

1007 likes

#30

“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

tags: libraries, libraries-shadows, security, words

553 likes

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