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#1

“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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#2

“Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.”
― Primo Levi, The Periodic Table

tags: perfection

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#3

“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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#4

“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
― Sharon Creech

tags: books

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#5

“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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#6

“One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.”
― Josephine Tey, To Love and Be Wise

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#7

“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
― Robert Graves

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#8

“Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
― Thea Dorn

tags: reading

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#9

“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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#10

“No matter how nice the place is where you live, you need to experience life and the world.”
― Terri Irwin, MY STEVE

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#11

“The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.”
― Harsha Bhogle, The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers

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#12

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

tags: inspirational, writing

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#13

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

tags: life

340 likes

#14

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

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#15

“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

#16

“Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure…”
― Patricia Polacco

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#17

“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
― Jean Kerr

tags: beauty

994 likes

#18

“Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
― Dean Koontz

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#19

“Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles

tags: calling, healing

1386 likes

#20

“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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#21

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
― Frida Kahlo

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#22

“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

1043 likes

#23

“To do nothing is the way to be nothing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: nothing

800 likes

#24

“The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

1279 likes

#25

“Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”
― Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

1406 likes

#26

“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

#27

“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

962 likes

#28

“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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#29

“Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

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#30

“The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns.”
― Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Grande Sertao: Veredas

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