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#1

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

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#2

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

tags: imagination, writing

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#3

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: food, love

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#4

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

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#5

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
― Derek Walcott

tags: poetry

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#6

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

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#7

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

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#8

“Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

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#9

“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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#10

“Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

tags: jamie-fraser

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#11

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

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#12

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#13

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

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#14

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

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#15

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

tags: education, reading

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#16

“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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#17

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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#18

“The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.”
― Beth Lisick

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#19

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

tags: writing-life

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#20

“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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#21

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

tags: memories, past

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#22

“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

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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

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: imagination

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#25

“I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.”
― John O'hara

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#26

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

tags: poetry

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#27

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

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#28

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: friends, friendship

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#29

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

tags: inspirational

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#30

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
― Miranda July, It Chooses You

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