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4334 quotes by 2712 authors
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You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing…
— Pablo Neruda
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually…
— Alan Watts
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Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren’t virgins, Min. That’s why there’s people to begin with.
— Daniel Handler
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If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light…
— Arthur Golden
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To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.
— Henry Ford
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In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself…
— Margaret Atwood
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When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions…
— Elbert Hubbard
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...it’d be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, I’ve done that,' Mark said airily. 'It’s a game we used to play,…
— Margaret Haddix
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we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit…
— Jack Zipes
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Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the…
— Eoin Colfer
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I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee.…
— Suzanne Collins
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Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is…
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are…
— Jack Kerouac
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Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
— Anais Nin
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Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking…
— Arundhati Roy
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Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk,…
— Charles Dickens
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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never…
— Paulo Coelho
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