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    Haruki Murakami
    “It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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    Tim O'Brien
    “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
    ― Tim O'Brien
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, stories, truth, writing
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    Daphne du Maurier
    “If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
    ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
    tags: books, fiction
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    Rick Yancey
    “You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: alien, apocalypse, cassie, choices, fiction, horror, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, survival, young-adult
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    Christopher Paolini
    “The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
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    Patrick Ness
    “Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: fiction, stories
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    L.J. Smith
    “Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon”
    ― L.J. Smith, Nightfall
    tags: argument, damon, elena, fiction, romance, vampire
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  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
    tags: fiction, humor
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    Michael Crichton
    “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
    ― Michael Crichton, State of Fear
    tags: bigotry, fiction, prejudice, science
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    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: fiction, money, on-writing, virgin, women, writing
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: classic, drama, fiction, nick-carraway
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    Rick Yancey
    “We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: alien, apocalypse, cassie, death, fiction, horror, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, survival, young-adult
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    John Waters
    “You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.”
    ― John Waters, Role Models
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    Nick Hornby
    “I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.”
    ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
    tags: characterization, dark-humor, fiction, personal-insight, rob-gordon
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    Roald Dahl
    “I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World
    tags: children-s-literature, dahl, danny-the-champion-of-the-world, fiction
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains
    tags: animator, anita-blake, executioner, fiction, hunter, jean-claude, paranormal, romance, vampire
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: art, books, deception, fiction, lies, novels, on-fiction, plot, truth, weaving, writing
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    Walter Moers
    “Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”
    ― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, reading
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    Sara Gruen
    “When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?”
    ― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
    tags: fiction
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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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
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: humor
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  • #25
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
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    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
    23426 likes



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