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#1

“Should I pander to your.....incompetence so you'll feel better? I don't think so.”
― Christopher Paolini

#2

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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#3

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: love

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#4

“I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you.”
― Fredrich Nietzche

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#5

“Before we can even make it all the way up the stairs, Bruno pushes me against the wall, leaning in close over me. His chest is heaving and I can tell that he’s working as hard as he can to control himself, to stay level-headed. It’s a thrill to think that he’s as intoxicated by me as I am by him.”
― Alexis Abbott, Bound for Life

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#6

“Sometimes, someone can enter your life and remind you just how much you’ve been missing out on. Bruno was mine once, and nothing in the world has ever compared to the thrill of belonging to him.”
― Alexis Abbott, Bound for Life

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#7

“Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands.”
― Sara Zarr

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#8

“Should I get you a shovel so you
can dig that hole a little deeper?”
― Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor

tags: humour

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#9

“the very judicious plan of dividing the two acts of the opera with a ballet,”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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#10

“Even a mole may instruct a philosopher in the art of digging.”
― Ernest Bramah, Kai Lung's Golden Hours

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#11

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

tags: readers-and-writers

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#12

“Only trivial annoyances still matter. “If Greece goes bankrupt the bingo prizes will probably get smaller,” was Mrs. Schouten’s analysis of the eurozone crisis.”
― Hendrik Groen, The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old

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#13

“Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)”
― Julius Caesar

tags: conqueror, imperialism, rome, war

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#14

“Books are a portable kind of time travel. We go back as well as forward when we read them. When we come back into the now, after being immersed in worlds previously unknown to us, we find ourselves, transformed. Touched by their magic, nothing we ever perceived beforehand remains quite the same.”
― Suzy Davies

tags: books, magic, perception, readers, reading, the-self, time-travel-other-worlds, transformation

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#15

“Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don't ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

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