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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: first-sentence
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    Muhammad Ali
    “Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
    ― Muhammad Ali
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    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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  • #4
    “Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.”
    ― Gale Harold
    tags: gale-harold, heroes, inspirational
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  • #6
    “There is freedom waiting for you,
    On the breezes of the sky,
    And you ask "What if I fall?"
    Oh but my darling,
    What if you fly?”
    ― Erin Hanson
    tags: freedom, inspiration, poetry
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: inspirational-love
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    Steven Moffat
    “Demons run when a good man goes to war
    Night will fall and drown the sun
    When a good man goes to war

    Friendship dies and true love lies
    Night will fall and the dark will rise
    When a good man goes to war

    Demons run, but count the cost
    The battle's won, but the child is lost”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor-who
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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  • #10
    Sylvia Plath
    “I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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  • #11
    Sylvia Plath
    “Eternity bores me,
    I never wanted it.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
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  • #12
    “She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.”
    ― robert m drake
    tags: happyquotes, hope, inspirational, inspirationalquotes, inspired, instadaily, instaquote, lovequotes, pinquotes, poems, poetry, quote, quoteoftheday, quotes, relationships, rmdrake, sadquotes, sayings, spokenword, tattoo, typewriter, vsco, writer, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Jon Krakauer
    “We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
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    Jon Krakauer
    “I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth. ”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
    tags: inspirational
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    Jon Krakauer
    “The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
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  • #17
    Jon Krakauer
    “The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
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  • #18
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Wer sich selbst belügt und seine eigenen Lügen anhört, kommt schließlich soweit, dass er keine Wahrheit mehr, weder in sich noch außer sich, zu erkennen vermag [...]”
    ― Fjodor Dostojewski
    tags: honesty, lying
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: character, humanity
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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  • #22
    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: books, reading
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  • #23
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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  • #25
    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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  • #27
    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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  • #28
    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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  • #29
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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  • #30
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
    7772 likes

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  • #31
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
    6601 likes



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