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#1

“Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”
― Katherine Mansfield

tags: eyes, happiness, happy-people, holding-hands, love, short-story, smiling

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#2

“Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.”
― Christopher Marlowe

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#3

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
― Jane Green, The Beach House

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#4

“The days that make us happy make us wise.”
― John Masefield

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#5

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

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#6

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman

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#7

“Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.”
― James Salter, Burning the Days: Recollection

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#8

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

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#9

“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: love

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#10

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
― Erich Segal

tags: love

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#11

“Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
― H. Rider Haggard, She

tags: after-death, death, forget, forgetting, immortality, life, live-forever, mortality, sleep

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#12

“Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#13

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
― Mercedes Lackey

tags: humor

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#14

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

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#15

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
― Pearl S. Buck

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#16

“To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.”
― John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

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#17

“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.”
― José Emilio Pacheco, Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

tags: hypocrisy, judgement

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#18

“If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
― James M. Cain

tags: james-m-cain, writing-craft

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#19

“Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.”
― Natsuki Takaya

tags: fruits-basket, haru, try

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#20

“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
― Abraham Sutzkever

tags: misattributed-to-tom-stoppard

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#21

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”
― Reinaldo Arenas

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#22

“Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, The Endearment

tags: life

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#23

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”
― Jessamyn West

tags: inspirational, writing

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#24

“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”
― Andre Maurois

tags: andre-maurois-books-reading

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#25

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”
― Alexander Trocchi

tags: words, writing

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#26

“Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again.”
― Robert James Waller

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#27

“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”
― Joan Aiken, The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories

tags: words

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#28

“Tis "the witching time of night", / Orbed is the moon and bright, / And the stars they glisten, glisten, / Seeming with bright eyes to listen —”
― John Keats

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#29

“When everyone else is losing their heads, it is important to keep yours.”
― Marie Antoinette

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#30

“What a curious power words have.”
― Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

tags: power, quotes, words

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