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    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: relaxation
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    Edwidge Danticat
    “No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.”
    ― Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!
    tags: dominican-republic, haiti, quisqueya, women, writing
    91 likes

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    Edwidge Danticat
    “When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.”
    ― Edwidge Danticat
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    Edwidge Danticat
    “If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.”
    ― Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory
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    Edwidge Danticat
    “It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.”
    ― Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
    tags: exile, haiti, refugees
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    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
    164035 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    113766 likes

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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64416 likes

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  • #10
    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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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    126103 likes

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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44296 likes

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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
    40727 likes

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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
    42604 likes

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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
    37938 likes

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  • #16
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
    33959 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
    51343 likes

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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
    tags: humor
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    Anaïs Nin
    “If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: writing
    1935 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “A word after a word after a word is power.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: reading, writing
    3252 likes

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  • #21
    Markus Zusak
    “...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”
    ― Markus Zusak
    tags: writing
    226 likes

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    Cyril Connolly
    “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

    [The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
    ― Cyril Connolly
    tags: faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing
    812 likes

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  • #23
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: dirty-hands, journalism, revolution, writing
    160 likes

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  • #24
    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
    4795 likes

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: talent, writing
    405 likes

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    Barack Obama
    “I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: writing
    31 likes

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    Rebecca West
    “Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”
    ― Rebecca West
    tags: writing
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    John Yau
    “Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.”
    ― John Yau
    tags: writing
    17 likes

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  • #29
    Agatha Christie
    “The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
    ― Agatha Christie
    tags: writing
    605 likes

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    Nikki Giovanni
    “and sometimes I sit
    down at my typewriter
    and I think
    not of someone
    cause there isn't anyone
    to think
    about and i wonder
    is it worth it”
    ― Nikki Giovanni
    tags: love, poetry, writing
    125 likes

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  • #31
    Rita Mae Brown
    “Writers will happen in the best of families.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: family, writers, writing
    144 likes



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