June 2012
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“I have always been a person who is “sensitive,” and I take too long to get over...”
– Alice Bolin, “I Sometimes Really Feel That Way”
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“She’s understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the...”
– Kate Morton
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“There’s no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one...”
– The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
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“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see...”
– The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
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“Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie...”
– A History of Love, Nicole Krauss
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“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“I write to live.”
– Bell Hooks
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“That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
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“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something,...”
– Nora Ephron
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“this morning i suddenly catch myself: i’m not there, i’m so lost in thought, i...”
– Anna Kamienska, A Nest of Quiet
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“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at...”
– John Steinbeck
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“A characteristic of artistic education is for people to tell you that you’re a...”
– Legendary designer Milton Glaser, father of the I♥NY logo, on the fear of failure. Again, some advice from alighthouseofwords.
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“Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty...”
– Edward Bono, Lateral Thinking
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“The motives of women are so inscrutable… Their most trivial action may mean...”
– Sherlock Holmes
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“It was like I woke up when she came in … It was like diving into white-water...”
– Andrew Garfield on meeting Emma Stone
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“I love that moment. When you’re on a long car ride, or listening to music, or...”
– Anonymous
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“And still there haunted her a restless necessity to get a grip on love.”
– Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence
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“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that...”
– Dave Eggers
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“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
– Willa Cather
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“Don’t be someone that searches, finds, and then runs away.”
– Paulo Coelho
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“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”
– AARON OUTWARD
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“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is...”
– “Why Fiction Is Good For You,” from The Boston Globe
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“Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and...”
– George R.R. Martin
“Vanity and pride are different things, although the words are often used...”
– Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
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“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
– Anne Frank, The Diary Of A Young Girl
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“That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear...”
– Andrea Gibson, Yarn
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“We humans have a deeply curious nature, and more often than not it is about the...”
– BBC Why Are We So Curious?
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“I’d start saving all of my books. I would organize them by how many times I’ve...”
– If I Knew Where I Was Going
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“But sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people...”
– Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time
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“In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never...”
– The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller
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“People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their...”
– A Week In December, Sebastian Faulks
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“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions,...”
– The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
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“You must have some vision for your life. Even if you don’t know the plan, you...”
– Oprah Winfrey 