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#1

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

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“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

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“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: criticism

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“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

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#5

“Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.”
― Mario Batali

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#6

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“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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#8

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

tags: fire, love, lust, matches

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#9

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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#10

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

tags: poetry, truth

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#11

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

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#12

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

tags: anne-rice, pandora

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#13

“We are all worthy of one another.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

tags: love, worthiness

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#14

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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#15

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

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#16

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

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#17

“The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
― Ava Gardner

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#18

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#19

“We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

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#20

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

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#21

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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#22

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

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#23

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

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#24

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
― Henry Green

tags: highlight, revision, secrets, storytelling, style, writer, writers

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#25

“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

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#26

“...Don't you just hate a phony-looking stiff?" - Aunt Edna”
― Janet Evanovich, Hero at Large: A single-mom skating coach injures a hunky stranger, then brings him home―laughs and romance collide in this zany classic.

tags: funny

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#27

“Steven Fry on The Da Vinci Code-
"It is complete loose stoolwater. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind.”
― Steven Fry

tags: humour

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#28

“Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.”
― William Steig, Dominic

tags: life

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“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

tags: inspirational

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#30

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

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