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#1

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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#2

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: memory

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#3

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: books, reading

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#4

“Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”
― Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee

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#5

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: power-of-words

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#6

“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: inspirational

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#7

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

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#8

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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#9

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

tags: nico

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#10

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

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#11

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

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#12

“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
― Margaret Wise Brown

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#13

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
― D.H. Lawrence

tags: inspirational

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#14

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

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#15

“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

tags: pain

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#16

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

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#17

“The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
― Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

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#18

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

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#19

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
― Sherwood Anderson

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#20

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#21

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson

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#22

“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
― Henry Louis Gates Jr

tags: african-american, american, censorship, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-read, literary

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#23

“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien

tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing

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#24

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness

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