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A writer gets to explode on the page. Critics and readers are the ones get to to gather up the shrapnel and examine the damage and figure out who got hurt.
- Neil Gaiman
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Plato 
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Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
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Good prose is like a windowpane.
- George Orwell, “Why I Write” (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
- Maya Angelou (via libraryland)
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whimsical-nostalgia: I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.  ~E.E. Cummings

whimsical-nostalgia:

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. 

~E.E. Cummings

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So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
- Dr. Seuss (via libraryland)
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Think before you speak. Read before you think.
- Fran Lebowitz (via libraryland)
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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
  
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Some books are meant to be tasted, others to be swallowed,

and some few to be chewed and digested

- Francis Bacon
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Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -
‘Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you’re straightway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain -
- Emily Dickinson
  
A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Faking it is exactly what a lot of introverts learn to do from an early age. And that masquerade covers up something primal and deep.
- Bryan Walsh, “The Upside Of Being An Introvert (And Why Extroverts Are Overrated)”

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