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    George R.R. Martin
    “A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    John Cheever
    “Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
    ― John Cheever
    tags: books, fiction, inspirational, on-fiction, writing
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    “Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
    ― Colm Tóibín
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    Dorothea Mackellar
    “I love a sunburnt country,
    A land of sweeping plains,
    Of ragged mountain ranges,
    Of droughts and flooding rains.
    I love her far horizons,
    I love her jewel-sea,
    Her beauty and her terror –
    The wide brown land for me!”
    ― Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar
    tags: australia, australian, poetry
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    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: inspirational
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    Natalie Angier
    “We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
    ― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
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    Ben Okri
    “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
    ― Ben Okri
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    William Allingham
    “Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”
    ― William Allingham
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    Bruno Schulz
    “My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.”
    ― Bruno Schulz
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    Ellen Goodman
    “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
    ― Ellen Goodman
    tags: forgiveness, gratefulness, love
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    Stanley Fish
    “The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
    ― Stanley Fish
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    Rebecca Makkai
    “I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
    ― Rebecca Makkai
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    Hervé Le Tellier
    “There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
    ― Hervé Le Tellier
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    Ellen Glasgow
    “Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
    ― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life
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    Gary Paulsen
    “I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
    ― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book
    tags: books, reading
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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    Diane Duane
    “Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
    ― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
    tags: belief, change, faith, life, magic, universe
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    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
    ― Edward Bulwer Lytton
    tags: music, power-of-music
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    Caitlín R. Kiernan
    “Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.”
    ― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl
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    André Brink
    “My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
    ― André Brink
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    John Masefield
    “The days that make us happy make us wise.”
    ― John Masefield
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    Carol Shields
    “Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
    ― Carol Shields
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    Daphne Sheldrick
    “To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day…. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.”
    ― Daphne Sheldrick
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    John Hodgman
    “Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
    ― John Hodgman
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    Sophocles
    “I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
    tags: hindsight, retrospect
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    Sophocles
    “Wild as you are, all that love you must love you still.”
    ― Sophocles
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    Gregory Maguire
    “Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Dodie Smith
    “There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: love
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    René Char
    “I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
    ― René Char
    tags: resistance, words
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    Christian Bauman
    “Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.”
    ― Christian Bauman
    tags: learn, read, reading
    1875 likes



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