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    Lawrence Durrell
    “Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
    ― Lawrence Durrell, Justine
    tags: silence
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    William Wordsworth
    “Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
    Than when we soar.”
    ― William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814
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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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    Robert J. Sawyer
    “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
    ― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God
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    Katherine Anne Porter
    “The past is never where you think you left it.”
    ― Katherine Anne Porter
    tags: past
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    Amy Sedaris
    “I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge
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    Isadora Duncan
    “You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
    ― Isadora Duncan, Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan
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    Theodore Roethke
    “Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
    ― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
    tags: life, poetry
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    Theodore Roethke
    “What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.”
    ― Theodore Roethke
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: cheese, poetry
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Fall of Atlantis
    tags: despair, hope
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    Leo Rosten
    “O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
    ― Leo Rosten
    tags: adulthood, fairy-tales
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    Leo Rosten
    “The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
    ― Leo Rosten
    tags: inspirational, purpose, truth
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    Leo Rosten
    “Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.”
    ― Leo Rosten
    tags: animals, children, humor, w-c-fields
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    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: evil, good
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    Gregory Maguire
    “Happy endings are still endings.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch
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    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
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    James Joyce
    “Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
    tags: james-joyce, ulysses
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: be-yourself, self-expression
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “The weight of the world is love.
    Under the burden of solitude,
    under the burden of dissatisfaction
    the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
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    Philip Barry
    “The time to make up your mind about people, is never.”
    ― Philip Barry, The Philadelphia Story: A Comedy in Three Acts
    tags: the-philadelphia-story, tracy-lord
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    Machado de Assis
    “He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.”
    ― Machado de Assis, Iaiá Garcia
    tags: balance, evil, good
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “All that you touch
    You Change.

    All that you Change
    Changes you.

    The only lasting truth
    is Change.

    God
    is Change.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler
    tags: change, god
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
    tags: writing
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
    tags: show-not-tell
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series
    tags: quoted-by-wally-lamb
    422 likes

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    Pearl S. Buck
    “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
    ― Pearl S. Buck
    tags: contentment
    4351 likes



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