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    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    ― J. D. Salinger
    tags: salinger, stories
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    Jack London
    “The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
    ― Jack London, White Fang
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    Charles Dickens
    “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: love
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
    tags: kiss, love, nature
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    Tom Perrotta
    “Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
    ― Tom Perrotta, Election
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    Danielle Steel
    “Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
    ― Danielle Steel, The Gift
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Post Office
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    William Golding
    “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    Charles Darwin
    “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
    tags: dare, inspirational, life, science, time, value, waste
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    Rosamunde Pilcher
    “She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
    ― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers
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    Tuli Kupferberg
    “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
    ― Tuli Kupferberg
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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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    Herman Melville
    “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: adventure, laughter
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
    tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Reading brings us unknown friends”
    ― Honore de Balzac
    tags: reading
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    Alice Dalgliesh
    “What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
    ― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil
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    E.E. Cummings
    “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
    It's always our self we find in the sea.”
    ― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems
    tags: water
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    Ntozake Shange
    “Where there is a woman there is magic.”
    ― Ntozake Shange
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    Lyndall Gordon
    “It was her religion to make the best of everything.”
    ― Lyndall Gordon, Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
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    J.G. Ballard
    “Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.”
    ― J. G. Ballard, Rushing to Paradise
    tags: ballardian
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: love, obsession, sleep
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    Shmuley Boteach
    “There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
    ― Shmuley Boteach
    tags: relationships
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    George Gissing
    “I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
    ― George Gissing
    tags: books, literature, nose, reading
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: perspective, positive-attitude
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    Dang Thuy Tram
    “Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.”
    ― Dang Thuy Tram
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    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading
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    T.E. Lawrence
    “I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars”
    ― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
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    James Burke
    “When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
    ― James Burke
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