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#1

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

tags: education

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#2

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#3

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

tags: crying, equilibrium, inspirational, tears

926 likes

#4

“L'humanité souleva sa robe et me montra, comme à un adepte digne d'elle, sa monstrueuse nudité.”
― Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio

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#5

“Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?”
― Alfred De Musset, Lorenzaccio

tags: control, dictators, dreams

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#6

“An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”
― Edith Wharton

tags: language, music, paradox, understanding

105 likes

#7

“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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#8

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: convoluted-speech, expression, humor, intelligibility, sarcasm

485 likes

#9

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share

5754 likes

#10

“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

tags: awe, love

961 likes

#11

“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

tags: etiquette

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#12

“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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#13

“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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#14

“Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.'
Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people. What she does is the contrary-she fastens their eyelids open, so they're never again in the blessed darkness.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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#15

“So our virtues
Lie in the interpretation of the time:
And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
To extol what it hath done.
One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.”
― William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

tags: politics, roman, tragedy

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#16

“We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

tags: history, identity

87 likes

#17

“If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.”
― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

tags: inspirational

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#18

“I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.”
― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

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#19

“There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?”
― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

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#20

“Experience has taught me that an expected answer is often better than the truth.”
― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

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#21

“I have to admit, though, that Cynthia was a great organizer, but then, so were the men with whips who got the pyramids built.”
― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

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#22

“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
― Nellie Bly

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#23

“Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.”
― Alan Bradley, A Red Herring Without Mustard

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#24

“The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

tags: fancourt, humour, writers-on-writing

167 likes

#25

“Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

tags: books, criticism, internet, opinion, reviews, thinking

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#26

“We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate it. They have blind faith in their own powers of creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

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#27

“Strike had always marvelled at the strange sanctity conferred upon celebrities by the public, even while the newspapers denigrated, hunted or hounded them. No matter how many famous people were convicted of rape or murder, still the belief persisted, almost pagan in its intensity: not him. It couldn't be him. He's famous.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

20 likes

#28

“It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you will never live.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Silk

tags: books

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#29

“C'était au reste un de ces hommes qui aiment assister à leur propre vie, considérant comme déplacée toute ambition de la vivre. On aura remarqué que ceux-là contemplent leur destin à la façon dont la plupart des autres contemplent une journée de pluie.”
― Alessandro Baricco

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#30

“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: divergent, fear

5675 likes

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