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#1

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

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#2

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

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#3

“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#4

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

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#5

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#6

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife

8025 likes

#7

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#8

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: breath, existence

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#9

“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
― Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip

tags: loneliness, optimism, responsibility, time

1129 likes

#10

“Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: advice, dark-night-of-the-soul, depression, practicality, problem

709 likes

#11

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#12

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#13

“And if you looking for a surefire way to turn a comfortable party into a very alcohol-fueled romp through gender politics, bring up feminism.”
― Alida Nugent, You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism

tags: feminism

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#14

“When those things happened, they learned that although those inches may add up to miles, sometimes those miles were only inches after all.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

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#15

“Corn dogs," the exorcist said, "are all the proof I need that there is a God.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

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#16

“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”
― Ryu Murakami, Coin Locker Babies

tags: travel

297 likes

#17

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31228 likes

#18

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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#19

“I delight in what I fear.”
― Shirley Jackson

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#20

“I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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#21

“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

tags: the-lady-of-the-haunted-house

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#22

“Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.”
― Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

tags: the-company-of-wolves, wolf, wolves

160 likes

#23

“I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.”
― Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop

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#24

“I desire therefore I exist.”
― Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

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#25

“I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.”
― Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

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#26

“Sifting through an urn of cremated remains you cannot tell if a person had successes, failures, grandchildren, felonies. “For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

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#27

“Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

tags: death, grief, mortality

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#28

“The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

tags: cat-videos, culture, death, death-and-dying, humor

99 likes

#29

“Fairy tales, as Nell had said, are always complicated.”
― Nancy Atherton

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#30

“A woman without a past is like a fruitcake without brandy—insipid!”
― Nancy Atherton

tags: humor, past, woman

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