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“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”
Stephen King
,
“On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”
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2000
“a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed, though not necessarily conciliated.”
Jack London
,
“The Call of the Wild”
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1903
“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.”
Carl Sagan
,
“The Demon-Haunted World”
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1995
“We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it.”
Milan Kundera
,
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
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1984
“It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.”
Haruki Murakami
,
“What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”
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2007
“It’s hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written”
Stephen King
,
“On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”
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2000
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.”
Charlotte Brontë
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“Jane Eyre”
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16 October 1847
“Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed”
Anne Frank
,
“The Diary of a Young Girl”
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1947
“people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.”
Paulo Coelho
,
“The Alchemist”
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1988
“When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens for you.”
John Steinbeck
,
“East of Eden”
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1952
“Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.”
J. D. Salinger
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“The Catcher in the Rye”
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1951
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
Blaise Pascal
,
“Pensées”
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1670
“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”
George R. R. Martin
,
“A Feast for Crows”
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2005
“We are often unable to tell people what they NEED to know, because they WANT to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.”
George MacDonald
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“Lilith”
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1895
“Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”
Bertrand Russell
,
“The Problems of Philosophy”
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1912
“Moments are the elements of profit.”
Karl Marx
,
“Das Kapital”
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1867
“Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand—that and such hope as I bring.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
,
“The Return of the King”
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1955
“the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.”
Mark Twain
,
“Following the Equator”
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1897
“Confine thyself to the present.”
Marcus Aurelius
,
“Meditations”
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c. 170 - 180
“see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.”
Herman Melville
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“Moby-Dick”
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1851
