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    Anne Carson
    “It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.”
    ― Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
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    Anne Carson
    “Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
    ― Anne Carson (Translator), Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
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    Anne Carson
    “You remember too much,
    my mother said to me recently.
    Why hold onto all that? And I said,
    Where can I put it down?”
    ― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God
    tags: burdens, memory, poems, poetry, remembering
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    Anne Carson
    “Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
    ― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
    tags: movement, words, writing
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    Anne Carson
    “Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.
    Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.”
    ― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
    tags: friendship, touching
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    Anne Carson
    “Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.”
    ― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
    tags: boundaries, eros, love
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    Anne Carson
    “Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.”
    ― Anne Carson
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    Anne Carson
    “Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.”
    ― Anne Carson
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: blood, cruelty, fear, gods, religion, suffering
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: bad, charming, good, tedious
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation
    tags: show-off
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    Timothy Leary
    “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
    ― Timothy Leary
    tags: ambition, equality
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    Mae West
    “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
    ― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
    tags: ambition, disobedience, empowerment, girls, goodness, naughty, promiscuity, risque, self-determination, wickedness, women
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
    tags: ambition, feminism
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: ambition
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    “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
    ― Walter H. Cottingham
    tags: ambition, intelligence, misattributed-salvador-dali, paraphrased
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    Criss Jami
    “Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: ambition, business, calling, career, commitment, determination, dreams, entrepreneur, faith, genius, hobbies, insanity, living, passion, patience, peace, perfection, perfectionist, perseverance, persistence, power, priorities, risk, sanity, strategy, strength, success
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    Donald Miller
    “I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.”
    ― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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    Sidney Sheldon
    “Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?”
    ― Sidney Sheldon, Bloodline
    tags: ambition, learn, life, power
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: ambition, choke, dreams, education, intelligence, lethargy, palahniuk, sloth
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    Steven Erikson
    “Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.”
    ― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon
    tags: ambition, compromise
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon
    tags: ambition
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: memories
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “There is always something left to love.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: love
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: aging-well, disillusionment, growing-older, philosophy
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: desire, loneliness, love, lust, passion, sex
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: existence, truth
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: happiness
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: life-memories
    6513 likes



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