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#1

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: faith, life, pixie-dust, trust

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#2

“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: book, books, music

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#3

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: death, fear, life

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#4

“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: charlie, flowers-for-algernon

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#5

“Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: charlie, flowers-for-algernon

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#6

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

tags: writing

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#7

“I did not know him, I knew my idea
of him.”
― Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap: Poems

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#8

“I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me,
I did not leave him, he did not leave me,
I freed him, he freed me.”
― Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap: Poems

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#9

“Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.”
― Sharon Olds

tags: sex

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#10

“A family is a mystery.”
― Sharon Olds

tags: family

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#11

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
― Joss Whedon

tags: writing

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#12

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: television, writing

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#13

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: dark, humour, joke, perspective, stories, writing

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#14

“If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: inspirational, television, willpower

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#15

“Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: needs, virtue, wish-fulfillment, writing

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#16

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

tags: writing-words

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#17

“Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.”
― William Strunk/E.B. White

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#18

“When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.”
― William Strunk, The Elements of Style

tags: writing

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#19

“A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style

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#20

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#21

“I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dyeing my hair tonight.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#22

“I told her I'd wait forever for her, but that was before I found somebody else who'd give me a ride home.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#23

“Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#24

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

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#25

“People tell me I look like my father. I've never seen my dad, so does that mean I look invisible?”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#26

“My birthday is on a holiday. I just have to wait until I die and they commemorate me.”
― Jarod Kintz, Great Listener Seeks Mute Women

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#27

“Return something not for the possibility of a reward, but for the joy of giving a gift which you did not have to pay for.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#28

“Sometimes I get depressed about my age. In March I’ll be 26. If man weren’t measured in numbers, but rather letters, I’d be turning Z. And then I’d be dead.”
― Jarod Kintz, I Should Have Renamed This

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#29

“Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a sword.”
― Jarod Kintz, Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life

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#30

“You’re disoriented. You just woke up. You’re in the future. You’ve been asleep for eight hours.”
― Jarod Kintz, $3.33

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