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#1

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

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#2

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: good-evil

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#3

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

tags: aliteracy, bibliophiles, book-lovers, willful-ignorance, zealotry

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#4

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
― Anne Rice

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#5

“It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

tags: the-vampire-chronicles

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#6

“We're frightened of what makes us different.”
― Anne Rice

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#7

“The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.”
― Anne Rice

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#8

“It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods: Tenth Anniversary

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#9

“All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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#10

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

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#11

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

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#12

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#13

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#14

“We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

tags: inspirational

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#15

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: identity

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#16

“Winter is coming.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: forcasting, mottos, winter

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#17

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: books, reading

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#18

“We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: inspirational

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#19

“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: fantasy, heaven

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#20

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: bravery, fear

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#21

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

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#22

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: travel

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#23

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self

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#24

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

tags: kindness

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#25

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

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#26

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

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#27

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: communication, psychology

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