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Short Story Writer Inspirational Quotes (8927)

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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses
Oscar Wilde
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Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.
Nora Ephron
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With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We should all be lucky enough to be such a bad feminist.
Ayelet Waldman
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But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
Oscar Wilde
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
Maeve Binchy
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The internet kind of feels like happiness sometimes, however. It feels like stimulation.
George Saunders
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What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.
George Saunders
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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all.
Jeanette Winterson
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Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.
Leon Uris
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I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
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First impressions are always unreliable.
Franz Kafka
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His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.
Henry James
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde
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It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesnt happen very often.
Amy Bloom
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Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
Amy Bloom
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I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.
Amy Bloom
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Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.
Amy Bloom
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Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.
Amy Bloom
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The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.
Amy Bloom
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I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.
Amy Bloom
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