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    E.E. Cummings
    “To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: poetry
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    Audre Lorde
    “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: courage, empowering, fear, feminist, political, powerful, vision, women-strength
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    Audre Lorde
    “If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    Audre Lorde
    “Your silence will not protect you.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    tags: protection, silence, speech
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    Audre Lorde
    “I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: empowering, silence, speaking-out, spoken
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    Audre Lorde
    “and when we speak we are afraid
    our words will not be heard
    nor welcomed
    but when we are silent
    we are still afraid
    So it is better to speak
    remembering
    we were never meant to survive”
    ― Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems
    tags: afraid, fear, poem, silence, speaking-of, survival, survivors
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
    ― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    Albert Camus
    “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: autumn
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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    Andrea Gibson
    “Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like
    they're falling in love with the ground.”
    ― Andrea Gibson
    tags: autumn, love
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: apples, seasons
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    John Donne
    “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

    [The Autumnal]”
    ― John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
    tags: autumn, beauty, dreamy, literal, nature
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    “Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

    [Indian Summer]”
    ― John Howard Bryant
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    Truman Capote
    “Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.”
    ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
    tags: autumn, beginning, seasons, spring
    549 likes

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    Noël Coward
    “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
    ― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit
    tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    “You've just gotta hold your head up and act like you don't give a shit”
    ― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: hermione
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
    tags: art, love
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying, 'I don't like things that are convenient. And easy. I don't like having access to all of mankind's recorded discoveries at my fingertips. I don't like light. And knowledge.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “You act like there are two kinds of girls,' she said. 'The smart ones and the ones that boys like.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, books, re-reading, reading
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    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    ― Daniel Pennac
    tags: books, reading, rights
    6976 likes

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  • #24
    Bill Watterson
    “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
    ― Bill Watterson
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    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
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    Jane Smiley
    “A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.”
    ― Jane Smiley, 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
    tags: army, killing, veterans, war
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    Mary Oliver
    “When it's over, I want to say: all my life
    I was a bride married to amazement.
    I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

    When it is over, I don't want to wonder
    if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
    I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
    or full of argument.

    I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: life
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    Vera Brittain
    “If this word should turn out to be a 'Te moriturum saluto,' perhaps it will brighten the dark moments a little to think how you have meant to someone more than anything ever has or ever will. What you have striven for will not end in nothing, all that you have done and been will not be wasted, for it will be a part of me as long as I live, and I shall remember, always.”
    ― Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: loneliness
    3291 likes



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