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#1

“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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#2

“Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don’t even know I’m going.”
― Lily Tuck

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#3

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

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#4

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

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#5

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

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#6

“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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#7

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

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#8

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer

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#9

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

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#10

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

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#11

“Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”
― William Cullen Bryant

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#12

“Terror made me cruel . . .”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

tags: ghosts, haunting, supernatural

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#13

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

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#14

“My ambition was to live like music.”
― Mary Gaitskill

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#15

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

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#16

“. . . 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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#17

“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Home

tags: faith, inspirational

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#18

“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday.”
― Helen Hooven Santmyer

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#19

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

tags: education, reading

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#20

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8

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#21

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

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#22

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

tags: memories, past

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#23

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

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#24

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

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#25

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

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#26

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

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#27

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

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#28

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: philosophy, science

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#29

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
― Ruth Reichl

tags: community, eating, food, life, sharing

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#30

“Nobody said not to go.”
― Emily Hahn

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