May 2013
16 posts
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“Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not...”
– Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
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“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. It makes my destruction...”
– Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
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“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
– Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
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“From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As...”
– Edgar Allan Poe, The Collected Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
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“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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“Being scared isn’t the problem. It’s not running away that’s...”
– John Connolly, Nocturnes
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“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your...”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
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“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our...”
– Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
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“I know that’s what people say— you’ll get over it. I’d...”
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
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“People don’t save other people. People save themselves.”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
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“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
– Holly Black, White Cat
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“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
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“…in matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than...”
– José Saramago, The Cave
April 2013
28 posts
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“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what...”
– Claire Lispector, The Hour of the Star
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“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing...”
– Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi
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“Love? Be it man. Be it woman.
It must be a wave you want to glide in on,
give...”
– Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems
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“Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt,...”
– Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
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“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold...”
– Rumi, Essential Rumi
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then...”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
– Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
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“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days - three...”
– John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
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“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for...”
– Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
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“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in ten...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned...”
– John Green, Paper Towns
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“Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.”
– Junot Díaz, Drown
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“Nobody knows you.
You don’t know yourself.
And I, who am half in love...”
– D.H. Lawrence, Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
– L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
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“To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.”
– Robert Harris, Pompeii
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“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
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“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit...”
– D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
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“That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right...”
– Raymond Carver, Call Me If You Need Me
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“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head....”
– Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
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“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is...”
– Mary Oliver, American Primitive
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“You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can...”
– Richard Adams, Watership Down
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“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at...”
– William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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“When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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“Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
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“All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably...”
– Michael Crichton, The Lost World
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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write,...”
– Graham Greene, Ways of Escape
March 2013
38 posts
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“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
– Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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“The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh,...”
– Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
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“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
– John Green, Paper Towns
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“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.”
– Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel
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“I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so.”
– John Donne, The Complete English Poems 