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    Holly Robinson
    “Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give ourselves the time we desperately need to be transformed by a creative vision. Maybe that glass ceiling isn't really made of glass at all, but of sticky little fingers, dishes piled in the sink, and mortgages that demand two incomes.”
    ― Holly Robinson
    tags: creativity, gender, glass-ceiling, women
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    Holly Robinson
    “Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days.”
    ― Holly Robinson
    tags: creativity, glass-ceiling, women, writing
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    “Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.”
    ― Christopher Pike, Evil Thirst
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    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
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    Ralph Ellison
    “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: control, defeat, humanity, life
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    E.M. Forster
    “It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
    tags: love, poets, romance
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
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    Toni Morrison
    “Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993
    tags: story, writing
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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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    Mark Twain
    “April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
    ― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales
    tags: humor
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On Rainy Days
    tags: foolishness, inspirational
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    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, self-determination
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    William Wordsworth
    “Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
    Than when we soar.”
    ― William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
    tags: genius
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    Lois Lowry
    “It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
    ― Lois Lowry
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    James Branch Cabell
    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    ― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion
    tags: optimism, pessimism
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    Kingsley Amis
    “Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
    ― Kingsley Amis
    tags: consciousness
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    Richard Hughes
    “Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
    ― Richard Hughes
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic
    tags: longing, love, lovers, reunion
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.

    [Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009]”
    ― Cormac McCarthy
    tags: authorship, creation, creative-process, driving-forces, hardship, pain, writing
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Sketches and Travels, Etc.
    tags: dress, good-humor, society
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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