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    Stephen King
    “It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: art
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Suzanne Collins
    “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
    tags: peeta
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Susan Sontag
    “To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
    tags: hit, sages, thinking, violence
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    Mary Higgins Clark
    “When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
    ― Mary Higgins Clark
    tags: on-writing, revenge, storytelling
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #14
    A.A. Milne
    “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    ― A.A. Milne
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    Julie Kagawa
    “Metallic trees. That's new. If you see any steel dryads, be sure to tell me so I can run away screaming.”
    ― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King
    tags: puck
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    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: books, life
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  • #17
    “You can't stop people from talking about you, but you can stop giving them something to talk about.”
    ― Miley Cyrus
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    Cassandra Clare
    “I am a man" he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: brown, city-of-glass, clare, isabelle, jace
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    P.C. Cast
    “Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”
    ― P.C. Cast, Betrayed
    tags: inspirational
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    P.C. Cast
    “You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.”
    ― P.C. Cast, Chosen
    tags: chosen
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  • #21
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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  • #24
    Terry Pratchett
    “I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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  • #25
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    Judith Viorst
    “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
    ― Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
    tags: chocolate, strength
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    Samuel Lover
    “Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
    ― Samuel Lover, Rory O'More
    tags: motivational
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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    Richelle Mead
    “You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Frostbite
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    Richelle Mead
    “The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
    tags: academy, mead, richelle, vampire
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    Richelle Mead
    “what's your name?"
    what?" i asked, squinting at the light.
    your name." I reconized Dr. Olendzki peering over me.
    you know my name."
    I want you to tell me."
    Rose. Rose Hathaway."
    Do you know your birthday?"
    Of course I do. Why are you asking me such stupid things? Did you lose my records?"
    Dr. Olendzki gave an exasperated sigh and walked off, taking the annoying light with her. "I think she's fine,”
    ― Richelle Mead, Frostbite
    tags: academy, frostbite, mead, richelle, vampire
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