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#1

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#2

“What matters to you defines your mattering.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#3

“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

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#4

“you can never love someone as much as you miss them.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#5

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone

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#6

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

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#7

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom

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#8

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

tags: attributed-no-source, humor, misattributed-douglas-adams, wit

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#9

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: brevity, wit

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#10

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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#11

“Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

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#12

“Pity those who don't feel anything at all.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

tags: emotions, pity

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#13

“There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful.” I pictured each. “There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

tags: a-court-of-mist-and-fury, acomaf, darkness, rhys, rhysand

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#14

“Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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#15

“Azriel would likely love Mor until he was a whisper of darkness between the stars.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

tags: azriel, feyre, love, mor, pg487

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#16

“nothing can save
you
except
writing.
it keeps the walls
from
failing.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: writing

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#17

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#18

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

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#19

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

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#20

“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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#21

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#22

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: truth, writing, writing-advice

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#23

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

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#24

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#25

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: reading, words, writing

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#26

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#27

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

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#28

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

tags: books, imagination, writing

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#29

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
― John Green

tags: alone, creative-process, eye-contact, introverts, profession, story, storytelling, writing

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#30

“some moments are nice, some are
nicer, some are even worth
writing
about.”
― Charles Bukowski, War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984

tags: bukowski, love, moments, nice, poetry, war-all-the-time, writing

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