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    Hilary Mantel
    “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: book, books, fiction, read, reading, stories, story
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    “She didn’t want to try to explain that she was always disoriented, that she never, ever felt truly comfortable, even in her own home. Especially in her own home.”
    ― Ameera Al Hakawati, Desperate in Dubai
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    J.K. Rowling
    “You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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    Jenny Colgan
    “I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”
    ― Jenny Colgan, Meet Me at the Cupcake Café
    tags: business, chick-lit, gluttony, humor, humour, seven-deadly-sins
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: depression-silence
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: enthralled, obsession, slavery
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Cherise Sinclair
    “Coffee and chocolate—the inventor of mocha should be sainted.”
    ― Cherise Sinclair, Hour of the Lion
    tags: chocolate, coffee, mocha
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    Charles Lamb
    “Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
    ― Charles Lamb
    tags: new-years
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    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom
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    “If I ever get rid of my Bi Polar condition we'll be so happy.”
    ― Stanley Victor Paskavich
    tags: bipolar-disorder
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    Zadie Smith
    “She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.”
    ― zadie smith
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
    tags: companionship, loneliness, marriage, single, spinsterhood
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    Anne Frank
    “No one has ever become poor by giving.”
    ― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play
    tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness
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    William Styron
    “We're all in this game together.”
    ― William Styron
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen
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    Diana Nyad
    “I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
    ― Diana Nyad
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Curtis Sittenfeld
    “I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
    ― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep
    tags: anonymity, blending-in
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    Temple Grandin
    “I am different, not less.”
    ― Temple Grandin
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    Agatha Christie
    “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
    ― Agatha Christie
    tags: archeology, growing-older, marriage
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Ambeth R. Ocampo
    “School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.”
    ― Ambeth Ocampo
    tags: aliteracy, illiteracy, literacy, reading, school
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    Kofi Annan
    “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.”
    ― Kofi Anan
    tags: literacy
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: advice, dark-night-of-the-soul, depression, practicality, problem
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    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Orson Welles
    “There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women...”
    ― Orson Welles
    tags: coffee, orson-welles
    95 likes



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