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“This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: pity, virtue

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#2

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: self-acceptance, self-awareness

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#3

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

tags: inspirational

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#4

“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: integrity

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#5

“Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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#6

“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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#7

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#8

“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: books

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#9

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#10

“Let the readers do some of the work themselves”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: books

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#11

“Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.”
― E.B. White

tags: books

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#12

“I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright

tags: second-amendment, writers

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#13

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-reading

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#14

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu

tags: reading

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#15

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.”
― Jerry Seinfeld

tags: bookstore-thinking-evidence

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#16

“A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

tags: book

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#17

“Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: books

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#18

“The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.”
― Anonymous Author

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#19

“The perception of beauty is a moral test.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: books

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#20

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: courage, fear, leadership, strength

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#21

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
― Isaac Asimov

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#22

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

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#23

“There are times when silence has the loudest voice.”
― Leroy Brownlow

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#24

“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.”
― Edward P. Morgan

tags: books

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#25

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

tags: imagination

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#26

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem

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#27

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
― Mark Twain

tags: morals

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#28

“Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today!”
― Mark Twain

tags: inspirational

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#29

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#30

“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable... The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.”
― John Steinbeck

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