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#1

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: love

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#2

“[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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#3

“I am so hip even my errors are correct.”
― Nikki Giovanni

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#4

“I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
― Nikki Giovanni

tags: writing

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#5

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

tags: relationships

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#6

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

tags: life, living, philosophy, women

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#7

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

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#8

“The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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#9

“She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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#10

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

tags: defend

3372 likes

#11

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

tags: experience, failure, metaphor, success, wisdom

3806 likes

#12

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#13

“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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#14

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

tags: inspiration

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#16

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#17

“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

tags: words

3194 likes

#18

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
― Arthur Miller

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#19

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion

30243 likes

#20

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

17494 likes

#21

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

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self

9087 likes

#22

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
― William Blake

tags: love

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#23

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

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#24

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

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#25

“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace

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#26

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: irreligion, organized-religion, religion

1997 likes

#27

“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

21432 likes

#28

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

64647 likes

#29

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#30

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: poetry

3237 likes

#31

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: books, feminist, reading

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