January 2012
16 posts
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“Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to...”
– Lemony Snicket
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To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never,...
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“There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. Their place...”
– Sara Zarr
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“He had in those days imagined himself capable of extraordinary heroisms and...”
– Graham Greene
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“Staring into someone’s eyes for a long time is psychic. At first it’s very...”
– Steve Abbott
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his...”
– Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
– Arthur Rimbaud
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“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot...”
– Elizabeth Taylor
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“Why be timid? Death is coming.”
– S. Amstell
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“You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.”
– Jeffrey Eugenides
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“It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to...”
– Jon Katz
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“Books can be possessive, can’t they? You’re walking around in a bookstore and a...”
– Sarah Addison Allen
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“It’s amazing how you can get so far from where you’d planned, and yet find it...”
– Sarah Dessen
December 2011
40 posts
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“I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted...”
– Rumi
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“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love...”
– Voltaire
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“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly...”
– Anne Lamott
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“But it was unpleasant for her to read, that is, to follow the reflection of...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent...”
– Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
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“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat,...”
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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“We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark… Their place...”
– Sara Zarr, Sweethearts
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“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness...”
– Fernando Pessoa
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“What you tell me about in the nights. That is not love. That is only passion and...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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“Let’s face it: I’m scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I’m afraid for...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“When you love someone… truly love them, friend or lover, you lay your heart open...”
– Sherrilyn Kenyon
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“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and...”
– Jack Kerouac
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“It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.”
– Susane Colasanti
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“I confess, I do not believe in time.”
– Vladimir Nabokov
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“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
– Hermann Hesse
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“I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
–
Flannery O’Connor
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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“Life is made up of days that mean nothing, and moments that mean it all.”
– Unkown
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“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves...”
– Ernest Hemmingway
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“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool...”
– Ray Bradbury
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“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and...”
– Kahlil Gibran
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“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...”
– David Foster Wallace
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“You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone’s so shocked...”
– Craig Thompson, Carnet de Voyage
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“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s...”
– Haruki Murakami
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“A good night’s sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you’re a...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy
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“Why don’t you tell me that “if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
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“There are books full of great writing that don’t have very good stories. Read...”
– Stephen King
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“That was the thing about words. They were clear and specific: chair, eye, stone....”
– Janet Fitch
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