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    Anne Frank
    “I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: sacrifice
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    Victor Hugo
    “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: apothegm, optimism
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
    tags: writing
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    Katherine Paterson
    “It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.”
    ― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading
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    C.G. Jung
    “A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.”
    ― C.G. Jung
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    John Cheever
    “Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
    ― John Cheever
    tags: books, fiction, inspirational, on-fiction, writing
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    “Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
    ― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
    tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, home, homecoming, homelessness, roots
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Kilmeny of the Orchard
    tags: eternity
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    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    David Mitchell
    “I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: cloud-atlas, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, life, science
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: perspective, positive-attitude
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    Robert F. Kennedy
    “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
    ― Robert F. Kennedy
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    H.G. Wells
    “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity
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    Tom Robbins
    “So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.”
    ― Tom Robbins
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    Jules Verne
    “Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
    ― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
    tags: experience, failure, science
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    Katja Millay
    “People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.”
    ― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility
    tags: happiness, love, relationships, responsibility, unconditional-love
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
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    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”
    ― Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge
    tags: anxiety, insomnia, restlessness, sadness, sleep
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    Wendy Wasserstein
    “The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.”
    ― Wendy Wasserstein
    tags: balance, happiness, humor, identity, intimacy, life, love, sadness, self-loathing
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    Daniel Wallace
    “A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.”
    ― Daniel Wallace, The Kings and Queens of Roam
    tags: decieve, helping-others, intention, liar, lies, selfish, storyteller, storytelling
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    David Mitchell
    “I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: cloud-atlas
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    David Mitchell
    “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
    ― Walter H. Cottingham
    tags: ambition, intelligence, misattributed-salvador-dali, paraphrased
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    Louis L'Amour
    “I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.”
    ― Louis L'Amour, Sackett's Land
    tags: ambition, initiative, inspirational
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    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “Never give up.
    It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
    tags: ambition, desires, dreams, drive, effort, hope, inspirational, perserverance, richelle, richelle-goodrich, trying
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    Daniel Wallace
    “He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”
    ― Daniel Wallace, The Kings and Queens of Roam
    tags: ambition, failure, hope, mistakes, new-day, past, persistence, perspective, quixotic
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    Marc Fitten
    “The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.”
    ― Marc Fitten
    tags: ambition, charm, dangerous
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