Quotes - Vicki Nemeth (vickisnemeth) (Winnipeg, MB, Canada) Showing 1-15 of 15

#1

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

#2

“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

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#3

“Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)”
― Horace, The Satires of Horace

tags: advice, latin, writing, writing-advice

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#4

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#5

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
― Aristotle

tags: truth

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#6

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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#7

“Where you are depends on how you get there.”
― Robert Munsch

tags: biography

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#8

“Here is a book of tongues.
Take it. (Dark leaves invade the air.)
Beware! I now know a language so beautiful and lethal
My mouth bleeds when I speak it.”
― Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Poetry of Gwendolyn Macewen

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#9

“Actually even the worst childhood is always enchanted, how awful.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

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#10

“A marriage of commitment and knowledge produces dignified work.”
― Jedediah Purdy

tags: craft, creativity, trades, writing

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#11

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

13418 likes

#12

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

tags: life, peace

10242 likes

#13

“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: books

364 likes

#14

“History is not a compilation of facts, but an insight into a moving process of life.”
― Siegfried Giedion, Space Time & Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, 3rd Edition

tags: archaeology, epistemology, history, humanities, material-culture, science-and-change, technology, technology-and-society

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#15

“There was a time at home when I would have laughed at this. But not now. Now this sight makes me angry and sad.”
― Tho Pham, The Cricket War

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