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#1

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#2

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance

19641 likes

#3

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl, The Twits

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#4

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl

tags: happy, inspirational

1017 likes

#5

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

7666 likes

#6

“One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.”
― E.B. White, Essays of E.B. White

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#7

“Be obscure clearly.”
― E.B. White

tags: on-writing

136 likes

#8

“I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

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#9

“I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

583 likes

#10

“Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

1122 likes

#11

“Sleep tight, ya morons!”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: goodbye, holden

471 likes

#12

“She was not one for emptying her face of expression. ”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

tags: emotion, expression, face

309 likes

#13

“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?”
― Sherman Alexie, Flight

tags: books, boredom, dullness, inspiration, life, necessity, reading

243 likes

#14

“ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

tags: beautiful-losers

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#15

“Believe nothing of me
except that I felt your beauty
more closely than my own.”
― Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth

tags: beauty

32 likes

#16

“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: dreams, infatuation, love, sensation, thoughts

3701 likes

#17

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: candle, lost-love, sunset

1257 likes

#18

“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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#19

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
― Raymond Chandler

128 likes

#20

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: bravery, courage, fear

7261 likes

#21

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: bravery, courage, fear

2910 likes

#22

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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