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    William Saroyan
    “The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
    ― William Saroyan, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Maya Angelou
    “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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    Henry Beston
    “Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?”
    ― Henry Beston, The Northern Farm: A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm
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    E.E. Cummings
    “The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: snow
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    Nikki Giovanni
    “I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.”
    ― Nikki Giovanni
    tags: love, poetry, rain, snow
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    Mary Oliver
    “Snow was falling,
    so much like stars
    filling the dark trees
    that one could easily imagine
    its reason for being was nothing more
    than prettiness.”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: beauty, nature, prettiness, snow, winter, winter-night
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    John Steinbeck
    “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    tags: contrast, life, opposites, summer, winter
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    James Herriot
    “If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”
    ― James Herriot , All Creatures Great and Small
    tags: animals, gratitude, love, loyalty, soul
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    Bill Watterson
    “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
    tags: books, comfort, rain, reading, tea
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    Edwin Morgan
    “Valentine Weather

    Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes,
    come on, let us sway together,
    under the trees, and to hell with thunder.”
    ― Edwin Morgan, A Book of Lives
    tags: love, rain
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I woke to the sound of rain.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: beauty-in-literature, rain, simple, subtle
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Lighting new cigarettes,
    pouring more
    drinks.

    It has been a beautiful
    fight.

    Still
    is.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “Life is ours to be spent, not to
    be saved.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
    tags: inspirational, life
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: air, morphine, refreshing
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “Be a good animal,true to your instincts.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, The White Peacock
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
    but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
    like the eye of a violet.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
    tags: depression, loss, poems, quotes, stillness
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. ”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
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    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
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    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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    Stephen King
    “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
    ― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
    tags: birds, freedom, friends, friendship, letting-go
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    Stephen King
    “I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
    ― Stephen King
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    Stephen King
    “Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”
    ― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
    tags: heartbreak
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    Stephen King
    “No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

    Or you don't.”
    ― Stephen King, The Stand
    tags: change, survival
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    Stephen King
    “The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
    ― Stephen King, The Stand
    tags: inspirational
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    Stephen King
    “Your hair is winter fire
    January embers
    My heart burns there, too.”
    ― Stephen King, It
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