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“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
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Elizabeth Taylor
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indulgence
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virtue
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#2
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
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G.K. Chesterton,
Alarms and Discursions
tags:
cheese
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poetry
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#3
“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
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Carl Sandburg
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#4
“My library is an archive of longings.”
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Susan Sontag,
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
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books
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library
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longing
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#5
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
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Martin Luther King Jr.,
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
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conscience
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politics
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right
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#6
“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
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Romain Rolland,
Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1
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#7
“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
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John Grisham
tags:
inspirational-life
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#8
“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”
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Laura Ingalls Wilder,
The Long Winter
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#9
“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
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Alice Walker,
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
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#10
“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
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Nelson Mandela
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#11
“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
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Judy Blume
tags:
inspirational
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life
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#12
“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
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Charles M. Schulz
tags:
cartoonist
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humor
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#13
“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
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Dave Eggers
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books
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time
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#14
“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
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Betty Friedan
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#15
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
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Victor Hugo,
Les Misérables
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#16
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
―
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
tags:
coldness
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depression
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happiness
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life
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sad
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sadness
,
sorrow
12149 likes
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#17
“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
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Lemony Snicket
tags:
humor-wicked-reading
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#18
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
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Khaled Hosseini
tags:
life
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#19
“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
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Edward Albee
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#20
“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
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Flannery O'Connor
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#21
“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
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Marguerite Duras
tags:
mothers
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#22
“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
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Anne Lamott
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#23
“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
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Dorothy Allison,
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
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#24
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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Mark Twain
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friends
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friendship
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life
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#25
“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
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Charles Chaplin
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#26
“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
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Cynthia Ozick
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#27
“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
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Sue Grafton,
M is for Malice
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#28
“It is never too late to be wise.”
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Daniel Defoe,
Robinson Crusoe
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#29
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
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Niccolò Machiavelli,
The Prince
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#30
“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
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John Steinbeck,
The Grapes of Wrath
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