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#1

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
― Jean Cocteau

tags: cats, home

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#2

“There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

tags: minding-your-own-business, provocative

352 likes

#3

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

tags: death

1020 likes

#4

“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

277 likes

#5

“Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside

tags: cats

122 likes

#6

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

tags: dance, dancing, life

1786 likes

#7

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

tags: fear-of-unknown

2427 likes

#8

“And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!”
― Edgar Allan Poe

74 likes

#9

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

11719 likes

#10

“There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”
― Ray Bradbury

522 likes

#11

“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

3936 likes

#12

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth

6443 likes

#13

“I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.”
― Jim Thompson, A Hell of a Woman

14 likes

#14

“There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”
― Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me

168 likes

#15

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday

17422 likes

#16

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

5874 likes

#17

“Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since”
― Josephine Hart

61 likes

#18

“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Shelley

tags: beginning, fresh-start, start-over, today

584 likes

#19

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
― Mary W. Shelley

tags: consolation, mood, solitude

454 likes

#20

“I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: ch-2

65 likes

#21

“My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus

tags: education, letters, reading

115 likes

#22

“I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: education, libraries, self-education

1081 likes

#23

“Life is hell, but there are prizes. ”
― Janet Frame

12 likes

#24

“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

299 likes

#25

“Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: writing

151 likes

#26

“When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.”
― Preston Sturges

tags: life, writing

27 likes

#27

“The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.”
― Preston Sturges

tags: life

8 likes

#28

“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

13095 likes

#29

“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

9103 likes

#30

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17573 likes

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