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#1

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life

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#2

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: flight, flying, inspirational

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#3

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

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#4

“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
― Isadora Duncan, Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan

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#5

“Joy is the best makeup.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

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#6

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love

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#7

“Live not for Battles Won.
Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
Live in the along.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One

tags: battles, living, poetry

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#8

“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
― Leo Rosten

tags: adulthood, fairy-tales

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#9

“The time to make up your mind about people, is never.”
― Philip Barry, The Philadelphia Story: A Comedy in Three Acts

tags: the-philadelphia-story, tracy-lord

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#10

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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#11

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

tags: love

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#12

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

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#13

“When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.

When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Wisława Szymborska, Poems New and Collected

tags: future, silence

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#14

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

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#15

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

tags: morning, waking-up

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#16

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

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#17

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#18

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

tags: alchemy, writing

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#19

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

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#20

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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#21

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

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#22

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
― Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

tags: fear, heart, love, regret

2259 likes

#23

“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
― Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian

tags: revenge

1360 likes

#24

“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”
― Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

tags: love

1429 likes

#25

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: chess, daring, ideas

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#26

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed, fear, inspiration

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#27

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

tags: crazy, funny, words

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#28

“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
― China Miéville, King Rat

tags: challenge, trap

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#29

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: love

2729 likes

#30

“The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”
― Robert Benchley, My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

tags: humor

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