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    Stephen King
    “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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    Stephen King
    “I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
    ― Stephen King
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    S.D. Perry
    “Expect Nothing”
    ― S.D. Perry
    tags: resident-evil
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    Carlos Fuentes
    “I need, therefore I imagine.”
    ― Carlos Fuentes
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    Addison Moore
    “Play hard to get. You should be.”
    ― Addison Moore, Ethereal
    tags: kindlehighlight
    236 likes

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    Mae West
    “He who hesitates is a damned fool.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: fools, humor, paraphrased
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  • #7
    “The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.”
    ― Cher
    tags: marriage, women
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    Alexia Purdy
    “The only battle that matters is the one within.”
    ― Alexia Purdy
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
    37390 likes

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    Salman Rushdie
    “Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
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    Julie Kagawa
    “Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?”
    ― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
    16753 likes

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    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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    Stephen King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Stephen King
    “A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
    ― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew
    tags: reading, writing
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    Stephen King
    “Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
    ― Stephen King
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    Stephen King
    “There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: motherhood, mothers
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
    3382 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: drama, humor, plays
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    Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith
    “A good imagination may be the best friend of loners.”
    ― Kirsten Smith, The Geography of Girlhood
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    Thomas Amo
    “The worst nightmare is to have no dreams”
    ― Thomas Amo, Silence
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    Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith
    “I realize the thing about a guy you've spent your whole life loving from afar is that even though he's real you've really made most of him up.”
    ― Kirsten Smith, The Geography of Girlhood
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    Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith
    “How come families are full of people that have no clue how they make each other feel?”
    ― Kirsten Smith, The Geography of Girlhood
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    Lauren DeStefano
    “Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.”
    ― Lauren DeStefano, Wither
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
    165223 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32149 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Jus Accardo
    “Things had gone from really weird to I-fell-down-the-rabbit-hole surreal.”
    ― Jus Accardo, Touch
    68 likes



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