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#1

“The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.”
― Ella Leya, The Orphan Sky

tags: eastern-culture, tea, tradition

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#2

“With full mugs and expectant hearts-
Acknowledge His presence.
Listen.
Give Him your day, each day.
Every day.”
― Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

tags: christian, coffee, day, expect, faith, god, hearts, jedi, listen, love, mugs, presence, static

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#3

“We do live in a world with lunatic and mentally corrupted people, and still you expect I shouldn’t smash some faces.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

tags: corrupted, expect, lunatic, mentally, world

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#4

“Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been attempting to slip something past him. He had had the same disgust with the Professor Challenger stories, when the bull-necked old professor became a convert to Spiritualistm; it was not that Richard had any problems believing in ghosts - Richard believed, with no problems or contradictions, in everything - but Conan Doyle was preaching, and it showed through the words. Richard was young, and innoncent in his fashion, and believed that authors should be trusted, and that there should be nothing hidden beneath the surface of a story.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

tags: arthur-conan-doyle, authors, christianity, narnia, professor-challenger, spiritualism, stories, writing

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#5

“If I collected dust, I wouldn’t mind if I got dust on it. My collection would grow and accumulate naturally. Probably my love would blend in with it as well, since I haven’t used it in so long.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#6

“When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good.”
― David Servant, Forever Rich

tags: heaven, hell, money, radical, reward, stewardship, wealth

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#7

“I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.”
― Jarod Kintz, I Want

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#8

“What does this think about that?
Nothing thinks about anything.
Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants?
If it did, it would be people. . .
Why am I worrying about this?
If I think about these things,
I’ll stop seeing trees and plants
And stop seeing the Earth
For only seeing my thoughts...
I’ll get unhappy and stay in the dark.
And so, without thinking, I have the Earth and the Sky.”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

tags: beauty, cosmos, god, living, meaning-of-life, nature, paganism, pantheism, seeing, simplicity, thinking, tranquility

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#9

“Maybe knowing better was exactly why I did it.”
― M. Pierce, Night Owl

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#10

“Hannah." He lifted my chin. He stroked my cheek and feathered a hand through my hair. "I have you. I'm happier than any man has a right to be.”
― M. Pierce, Night Owl

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#11

“Il fallait un pays où la langue était un enjeu, un enjeu et un territoire. Au commencement était le verbe, et le pouvoir aux grammairiens. La règle de proximité. En 1767, Nicolas Beauzée, Grammaire générale : "Le genre masculin est réputé plus noble que le genre féminin à cause de la supériorité du mâle sur la femelle." En 1772, Nicolas Beauzée, grammairien, est élu à l'Académie française. Depuis, le masculin l'emporte sur le féminin, officiellement, à coups de sabre, avec la bénédiction du Bescherelle et les bons vœux du Petit Robert.”
― Chloé Delaume, Les Sorcières de la République

tags: feminism, grammar, masculin-pluriel

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#12

“Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.”
― Mary Norris, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

tags: punctuation

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#13

“Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you’re reacting at speed, you’re reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

tags: afraid, mistakes, rain, react, speed, unpredictable

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#14

“I got hung up on diction and syntax; I agonized over every word.”
― M. Pierce, Night Owl

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#15

“I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: solitude, the-waves, virginia-woolf

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#16

“Novels by serious writers of genius often eventually become best-sellers, but most contemporary best-sellers are written by second-class writers whose psychological brew contains a touch of naïvety, a touch of sentimentality, the story-telling gift, and a mysterious sympathy with the day-dreams of ordinary people.”
― Leonard Woolf

tags: best-sellers, bloomsbury-group, genius, leonard-woolf, modernism, virginia-woolf, vita-sackville-west, writing

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#17

“Don't be decieved by your mortality, you're just a piece of debris, and the sophisticated one lies inside us which was either created or would be destroyed.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#18

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: poetry, wisdom

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#19

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
― Oscar Wilde, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol

tags: 1897, ballad-of-reading-gaol

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#20

“We can all agree that tea is good for the body. However, tea is very good for our hair too.”
― Monica Millner, The Natural Hair Journal

tags: afro, afro-hair, black-women, black-women-writers, braids, natural-hair, natural-hair-products

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#21

“Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, creative, creativity, follow, following, gut-feeling, gut-feelings, human, humans, innovative, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, instinct, inventive, mind, minds, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, original, originality, pattern, philosophy, rule, rules, will, willpower, wisdom, wisdom-quotes

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#22

“Better safe than sorry!”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

tags: emotional, regrets

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#23

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life

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#24

“People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.”
― Michelle M. Pillow

tags: author, character, fantasy, fiction, michelle-pillow, romance-novel, writing, writing-craft, writing-life, writing-process

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#25

“Surely if Alternative Facts are untrue they should be called Ficts?”
― Alan Dapre

tags: alternative-facts, fiction, ficts

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#26

“Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy”
― Jennifer Gold, Undiscovered Country

tags: biology, contemporary, fiction, human, life, messy, purpose, real, relatable, young-adult

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#27

“كانت ترى أن الطيور هي أكثر الكائنات تحرُّرا لأن أجنحتها تتيح لها السفر
والتنقل من مكان لأخر بدون جواز سفر ولا مطار. السماء ملعبها وأشجار
وغصون العالم بيوتها وطعامها من الحبوب متوافر دائمًا. فلايمكن أن ترى
طيرًا يمنع الطعام عن طير آخر أو يحبسه أو يتحكم فيه، وهذا ينطبق على باقي
الكائنات التي تعيش في انسجام تام مع الطبيعة، ما عدا الإنسان”
― Yasmine Khalifa, بنت وولد

tags: fiction

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#28

“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: analogy, public-speaking, simile, speaking

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#29

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

tags: life, writing

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#30

“God gave you the capacity to invent, work, create and to be brilliant.”
― Nicole J. Fortune, From Selfie To Wifey

tags: author-nicole-fortune, dating, dating-advise, fiancé, from-selfie-to-wifey, husband, love, marriage, nicole-fortune, nicole-j-fortune, relationship-tips, relationships, wedding, wedding-day, wife, wifey

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