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    Edith Wharton
    “I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.”
    ― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
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    Edith Wharton
    “Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.”
    ― Edith Wharton
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    Edith Wharton
    “The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.”
    ― Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    Margaret Atwood
    “All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

    All of them?

    Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: stories, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: secrets
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: criticism, humor, writing
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  • #11
    “People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: television, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: writing
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    H.G. Wells
    “No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”
    ― H. G. Wells
    tags: attributed-no-source, writing
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
    ― robert heinlein
    tags: writing
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    Don Roff
    “Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.”
    ― Don Roff
    tags: audience, humor, torture, writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: college, semicolons, writing
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    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: poetry
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: cheese, poetry
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    Shel Silverstein
    “If you are a dreamer come in
    If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
    A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
    If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
    For we have some flax golden tales to spin
    Come in!
    Come in!”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: dreamer, imagination, liar, make-believe, poetry, wisher, wishes
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    Robert Frost
    “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
    And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: humor, poetry, religion
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    Salman Rushdie
    “A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
    tags: duty, inspiration, writing
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    Wendell Berry
    “Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.”
    ― Wendell Berry, Farming: A Hand Book
    tags: advice, clutter, life
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    Sherman Alexie
    “Poetry = Anger x Imagination”
    ― Sherman Alexie, One Stick Song
    tags: anger, equations, imagination, poetry
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  • #24
    “The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. ”
    ― Rebecca McClanahan
    tags: aphorism, life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: poetry, wit
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “If you're going to read this, don't bother.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: first-sentences, opening-lines
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    M.T. Anderson
    “We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.”
    ― M. T. Anderson, Feed
    tags: first-sentence
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    Christopher Moore
    “You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.”
    ― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
    tags: first-lines, opening-lines
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148750 likes



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