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  • #151
    Ännä White
    “I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.”
    ― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
    tags: anxiety, beauty, courage, depression, faith, fear, memoir, not-alone, relationship-advice, rock-bottom, strength
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  • #152
    Matt Haig
    “The best thing about rock bottom is the rock part. You discover the solid bit of you. The bit that can't be broken down further. The thing that you might sentimentally call a soul. At our lowest we find the solid ground of our foundation. And we can build ourselves anew.”
    ― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book
    tags: depression, mental-health, mental-illness, rock-bottom
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  • #153
    David Chang
    “Recovering alcoholics talk about needing to hit rock bottom before they are able to climb out. The paradox for the workaholic is that rock bottom is the top of whatever profession they're in.”
    ― David Chang, Eat a Peach
    tags: rock-bottom, workaholics
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  • #154
    Nicky Verd
    “Life is not for the faint hearted”
    ― Nicky Verd
    tags: betrayal-quotes, life, pain, rock-bottom, soldiers, starting-over, survival, uncertainty
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  • #155
    “Some days,
    I feel everything at once.
    Other days,
    I feel nothing at all.
    I don't know what's worse:
    Drowning beneath the waves
    or dying from the thirst.”
    ― O.M.
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  • #156
    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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  • #157
    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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  • #158
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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  • #159
    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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  • #160
    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: patriotism, politics
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  • #161
    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, inspirational
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  • #162
    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
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  • #163
    Mark Twain
    “Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: illusions, life
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  • #164
    Mark Twain
    “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
    tags: travel
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  • #165
    Mark Twain
    “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: morals
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  • #166
    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: courage
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  • #167
    Mark Twain
    “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: inspirational, kindness
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  • #168
    Mark Twain
    “I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor
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  • #169
    Mark Twain
    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, success
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  • #170
    Mark Twain
    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: starting, working
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  • #171
    Mark Twain
    “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: conscience, humor, memory
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  • #172
    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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  • #173
    Doris Lessing
    “There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
    ― Doris May Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, storytelling, truth, truth-telling
    750 likes

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  • #174
    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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  • #175
    Phyllis A. Whitney
    “A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”
    ― Phyllis A. Whitney, Guide to Fiction Writing
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, on-writing, writing
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  • #176
    David Foster Wallace
    “Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
    tags: fiction, on-fiction
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  • #177
    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
    347 likes

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  • #178
    Walter Moers
    “Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”
    ― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, reading
    321 likes

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  • #179
    Richard Bach
    “If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”
    ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
    tags: fiction, inspiration, on-fiction, values
    283 likes

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  • #180
    Norton Juster
    “if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
    tags: children-s, fantasy, fiction, humor, illusions, imaginary, imagination, on-fiction, reality
    243 likes



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