January 2012
49 posts
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“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“Emote. It’s okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.”
– Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously… I’m Kidding
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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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“…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of...”
– Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
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“After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be...”
– Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
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“If I’m gonna jump off a cliff, and you’re going to get pushed off a...”
– Timothy Busfield, The West Wing
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“Today I finally overcame /
Tryin’ to fit the world inside a picture frame...”
– John Mayer, 3x5
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“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it...”
– L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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“You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that’s the sad truth. Maybe...”
– T.J. Thyne, Bones
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“When you’re done with a phone call, you let someone go. Or when you, take...”
– Emma Roberts, Scream 4
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“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake....”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle...”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett
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“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and...”
– Sylvia Plath, the Bell Jar
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“I haven’t seen you in ages /
sometimes I find myself wondering where you are /...”
– Lady Antebellum, Dancing Away with my Heart (via justinerawr)
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“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things...”
– Julian Barnes
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“Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and...”
– Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit (via julie911)
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“You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this math class,...”
– John Green (via julieheartsbooks)
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“‘I love you’, someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder- ‘well, how much?’-...”
– Tim O’Brian, In The Lake of the Woods
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“I’ve got reservations about so many things but not about you”
– Wilco, Reservations
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“I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine...”
– Sarah Vowell
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“Sometimes you’re the windshield
sometimes you’re the bug”
– Dire Straits, The Bug
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“It is not enough merely to seek greatness for ourselves, we must help others...”
– First Lady Michelle Obama
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“I am convinced, that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution,...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via rooftopsedge)
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“Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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“Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need...”
– Rob Lowe, The West Wing
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“Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get...”
– Garrison Keillor, Dusty and Lefty, The Lives of Cowboys
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“But monotony doesn’t make for painlessness. In the first century CE, Roman...”
– John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
– Jack London
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“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive,...”
– Howard Thurman
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“Heaven, such as it is, is right here on earth. Behold: my revelation: I stand at...”
– Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
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“Fate loves the fearless.”
– James Russell Lowell
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“I wish[] that you [] find happiness: […] love, laughter, friendship,...”
– David Boreanaz, Bones
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“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is...”
– Charles Dickens
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“Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite...”
– Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
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“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new...”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“The truth is that there are a lot of people like you, us, with strange hobbies...”
– Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies
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“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”
– Lois Wyse
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“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”
– Rita Mae Brown
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“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering...”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“We don’t have a lot of time on this earth! We weren’t meant to spend...”
– Ron Livingston, Office Space
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“I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it’s all the small...”
– John Green and David Levithan , Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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“There are cities from which it’s a short distance to natural splendor, and then...”
– Frank Bruni, “Seattle, a Tasting Menu”
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“May the coming year make us all a little smarter, a little stonger and a little...”
– K Johnson
December 2011
37 posts
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“It was like the cornerstone of my childhood, the event upon which I built...”
– Jim True-Frost, Off the Map