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  • #1
    I can think of no better way to meet a girl than to see her
    “I can think of no better way to meet a girl than to see her through the eyes of the story she loves best.”
    ― Beth Revis, A World Without You
    tags: bo
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    Dean Koontz
    “Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
    ― Dean Koontz
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    Erich Segal
    “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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    Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
    “Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
    ― Jean Paul
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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
    1590 likes

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  • #6
    Cat Cora
    “Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.”
    ― Cat Cora
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  • #7
    Wallace Thurman
    “I am reminded again that the greatest phrase ever written is words, words, words.”
    ― Wallace Thurman
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  • #8
    Robert James Waller
    “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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  • #9
    Ian McEwan
    “When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
    tags: lost-love, love
    1775 likes

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  • #10
    James M. Cain
    “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
    1470 likes

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  • #11
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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  • #12
    Anthony Bourdain
    “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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    René Char
    “I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
    ― René Char
    tags: resistance, words
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  • #14
    André Maurois
    “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
    1539 likes

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  • #15
    George Carlin
    “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: benediction, evil, goodwill, humor, inspirational, wishes
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    Masaru Emoto
    “To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention.”
    ― Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water
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    Abraham Sutzkever
    “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
    ― Abraham Sutzkever
    tags: misattributed-to-tom-stoppard
    1157 likes

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    Owen Wister
    “Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”
    ― Owen Wister, The Virginian
    tags: humorous-quotes, writers-and-writing, writers-on-writing, writers-quotes
    742 likes

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  • #19
    Mia Couto
    “Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
    ― Mia Couto
    tags: humanity, stories, storytelling
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  • #20
    Pearl S. Buck
    “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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  • #21
    Mercedes Lackey
    “If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
    ― Mercedes Lackey
    tags: humor
    908 likes

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  • #22
    H. Rider Haggard
    “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
    960 likes

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  • #23
    Jeph Jacques
    “You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.”
    ― Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, Vol. 1
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  • #24
    Yasunari Kawabata
    “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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  • #25
    Marguerite Yourcenar
    “Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”
    ― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
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  • #26
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling
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  • #27
    John Hodgman
    “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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  • #28
    Diane Duane
    “Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
    ― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
    tags: belief, change, faith, life, magic, universe
    1443 likes

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  • #29
    José Ortega y Gasset
    “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
    ― José Ortega y Gasset
    tags: interests, personality, values
    1932 likes

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  • #30
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
    2026 likes



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