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    Angela Carter
    “Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
    ― Angela Carter
    tags: books, reading
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    Douglas Preston
    “We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
    ― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence
    tags: evil, monster
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    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
    ― Edward Bulwer Lytton
    tags: music, power-of-music
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    Carlo Collodi
    “Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers”
    ― Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio
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    Carlo Collodi
    “Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!”
    ― Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio
    tags: boys, men
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    Carlo Collodi
    “Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.”
    ― Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio
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  • #7
    Carlo Collodi
    “In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!”
    ― Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio
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    Rachel E. Carter
    “The girl wouldn’t last the year. Girls like her were soft and easy to break. Lowborns always wanted glory until they realized the hard work it entailed. Darren had worked hard for everything, and a girl who tried to take that away? Well, she wasn’t worth very much.”
    ― Rachel E. Carter, Non-Heir
    tags: darren, love-hate, prince, ryiah
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  • #9
    Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and
    “Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.”
    ― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
    tags: advocate-for-compassion, advocating-for-compassion, belife-in-humanith, coexistence, confronting-change, contemporary-poetry-quotes, courage, creative-arts, cultural-arts, diversity-in-literature, diversity-in-publishing, humility, inspiration, inspiring, leaderhsip, leadership-strategies, literature-quotes, love-for-humanity, mlk-day, motivation, national-poetry-month, nonviolence-jihadism, npm17, poets-for-change, positive-motivation, postered-poetics-by-aberjhani, practicing-compassion, practicing-peace, self-empowerment-quotes, sorrow, speaking-truth-to-power, strategic-leadership, wisdom-quotes, world-poetry-day, writing-poetry
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  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Victoria Schwab
    “But the teacher had been right about one thing: violence breeds.
    Someone pulls a trigger, sets off a bomb, drives a bus full of tourists off a bridge, and what's left in the wake isn't just she'll casings, wreckage, bodies. There's something else. Something bad. An aftermath. A recoil. A reaction to all that anger and pain and death.”
    ― Victoria schwab, This Savage Song
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    Robin Hobb
    “Never do what you can’t undo until you’ve considered well what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate
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    Robin Hobb
    “To Fitz and the Fool.
    My best friends for over twenty years.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate
    tags: dedication
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    Robin Hobb
    “Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin
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    Victoria Schwab
    “People were messy. They were defined not only by what they'd done, but by what they would have done, under different circumstances, molded as much by their regrets as their actions, choices they stood by and those they wished they could undo. Of course, there was no going back - time only moved forward - but people could change.

    For worse.

    And for better.

    It wasn't easy. The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt.

    So make it worth the pain.”
    ― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet
    tags: august, going-forward, kate, life, monsters-of-verity, pain
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    Seanan McGuire
    “You're nobody's rainbow.
    You're nobody's princess.
    You're nobody's doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.”
    ― Seanan mcguire , Every Heart a Doorway
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    “please delete this quote to avoid spreading misinformation. These are not his words. This quote is a part of someone else’s quote he cited in his review of Industrial Society and Its Future. He prefaced the quote with “A take I found online that I think is interesting.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: political
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    “please delete this quote to avoid spreading misinformation. These were not Mangione’s words. This quote is a part of someone else’s quote he cited in his review of Industrial Society and Its Future. He prefaced the quote with “A take I found online that I think is interesting.”
    ― Anonymous
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  • #19
    “please delete this quote to avoid spreading misinformation. These are not Luigi Mangione’s words. This quote is a part of someone else’s quote he cited in his review of Industrial Society and Its Future. He prefaced the quote with “A take I found online that I think is interesting.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: political
    80 likes



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