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    Victor Hugo
    “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: education
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    Walker Percy
    “You can get all A's and still flunk life.”
    ― Walker Percy, The Second Coming
    tags: life
    440 likes

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    Gloria Steinem
    “Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel like I should be doing something else.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
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    Gloria Steinem
    “The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look, instead of by our heads and hearts.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
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    Gloria Steinem
    “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
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    T. Coraghessan Boyle
    “They wore each other like a pair of socks.”
    ― T.C. Boyle
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Anthony Trollope
    “There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
    ― Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
    tags: books, happiness, love
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    Scott Spencer
    “The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.”
    ― Scott Spencer, Endless Love
    tags: love, mourn, regret
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    Scott Spencer
    “It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.”
    ― Scott Spencer, Endless Love
    tags: life, love, youth
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    Scott Spencer
    “I knew from the start that I loved her and knew, as well, that I would never fall back from that love, never try, never want to.”
    ― Scott Spencer, Endless Love
    tags: eternal-life
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    Scott Spencer
    “Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own.”
    ― Scott Spencer, Endless Love
    tags: anger, feelings, love
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    Ray Bradbury
    “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: imagination, quality, skill, writers, writing
    1274 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    ― Anne Bronte
    tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: love
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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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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  • #24
    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
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    Erica Jong
    “The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: anais, bad, erica, girl, good, jong, lovers, nin, sexuality, women
    570 likes

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    Erica Jong
    “The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: paradox, timidity
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    Erica Jong
    “I quickly learned that a book carefully arranged before your face was a bulletproof shield, an asbestos wall, a cloak of invisibility. I learned to take refuge behind books, to become, as my mother and father called me, 'the absentminded professor-' They screamed at me, but I couldn't hear. I was reading. I was writing. I was safe.”
    ― Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
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    Erica Jong
    “Children are no antidote to loneliness.”
    ― Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
    tags: children, loneliness, parenting
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    Erica Jong
    “Sending works to magazines was entirely out of the question. Though I had been class poet in college and won the usual prizes, I was now convinced that nothing I was writing was good enough to send anywhere. I viewed editors of quarterlies as godlike creatures who would not even deign to read anything short of masterpieces. And I believed this despite the fact that I subscribed to quarterlies and religiously read the work in them. The work was often not good, I had to admit, but still, I was sure my own must be much much worse.”
    ― Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
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    R.L. Stine
    “Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
    ― R.L. Stine
    tags: diversity, horror, reading
    1183 likes



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