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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
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  • #3
    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
    tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words
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  • #4
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words
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  • #5
    Michael Ondaatje
    “She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
    ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
    tags: words
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  • #6
    Annie Proulx
    “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
    ― Annie Proulx
    tags: reading, words, writing
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  • #7
    Andrew Solomon
    “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
    ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
    tags: conversation, depression, fear, life, speaking, words
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  • #8
    Cassandra Clare
    “We live and breathe words.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
    tags: books, living, reading, words
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  • #9
    Stephen King
    “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: on-writing, words, writing
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  • #10
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
    tags: poetry, words
    1130 likes

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  • #11
    René Descartes
    “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: literature, reading, words
    1024 likes

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  • #12
    Ian Fleming
    “I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.”
    ― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
    tags: deeds, poet, words
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  • #13
    Markus Zusak
    “The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: language, words
    774 likes

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  • #14
    Emily Dickinson
    “I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: books, literature, meaning, power, words
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    Marcel Proust
    “Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
    ― Proust-M
    tags: books, literature, reading, solitude, words
    659 likes

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  • #16
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: words
    566 likes

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  • #17
    Muriel Barbery
    “I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
    ― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
    tags: books, language, literature, reading, words
    460 likes

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  • #18
    Jodi Picoult
    “Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
    tags: power-of-words, salem-falls, truth, words
    350 likes

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  • #19
    Mark Slouka
    “Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”
    ― Mark Slouka, God's Fool
    tags: language, loss, words
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
    tags: books, library, lies, people, reading, words
    358 likes

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  • #21
    Thomas Harris
    “God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
    tags: cry, crying, cycle, darkness, doom, doomed, god, god-s-creation, hannibal, hell, horror, humanity, insanity, mental-illness, murder, never-ending, prison, psychopath, punishment, serial-killer, serial-killers, sleep, the-silence-of-the-lambs
    125 likes

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  • #22
    Iris Murdoch
    “Your infatuation will end in tears.”
    ― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet
    tags: doomed, heartbreak, infatuation, iris-murdoch, tears, the-message-to-the-planet, warning
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  • #23
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Queer, how I misinterpreted the designations of doom.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: doom, doomed, foreshadowing, lolita
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