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    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
    tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words
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    Homer
    “…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: classics, greece, longing, love, lovers
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    William Shakespeare
    “O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: classics, education
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: classics, inspirational
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
    ― Mary Shelley
    tags: classics, education
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    Sophocles
    “Time, which sees all things, has found you out.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
    tags: classics, greek-literature, mythology
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    Emily Brontë
    “May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: classics
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    Helen Keller
    “I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.”
    ― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
    tags: books, classics, criticism, elitism, literature, opinions, reading, snobbery
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy
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    Thomas Hardy
    “They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
    tags: love
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: alec, feelings, strength, tess, women
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    Thomas Hardy
    “Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”
    ― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
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    Thomas Hardy
    “I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
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    Thomas Hardy
    “If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    tags: truth-telling
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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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    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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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Cassandra Clare
    “We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
    tags: dreams, letters, love, love-at-first-sight, power-of-words, writing
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
    tags: writing
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