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• I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Reflection, Space

  Don DeLillo (2003). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Creativity, Talking

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Believe, Book, Ideas

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• I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Finding Yourself, Cafeteria, Dukes

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.64, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Plato, Needs, Problem

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• All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it.

  Dan Millman

  Clouds, Years, Enjoy Life

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• Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Book, Dust, Broken

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.166, eBookIt.com

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• You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding him if it was aliens," Grandma said.

  Janet Evanovich

  Grandma, Missing, Devil

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.16, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.

  Lewis Hyde

  Art, Memories, Inspiration

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• Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself with groveling or sniveling, or appeals to her nomexistent mercy. Thinking that he might still be helpful in finding her Looking Glass Maze, she said, "I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.

  Frank Beddor

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Glasses

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• We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.

  Irvine Welsh

  Real, Careers, Ideas

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• Are you referring to the fact that you can't walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Facts, Surface

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• The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Mistake, Lying, Profound

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.199, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Missing, Solitude, Fleeting

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Feb 12, 2012

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• Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tommorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!

  Jerry Spinelli

  Sweet, Stars, Destiny

  Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Love, Stargirl”, p.240, Hachette UK

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• He said “woman” in the same way I’d say “Mmmmm, yummy chocolate” after waking up from hunger pains and finding a Hershey bar in an empty refrigerator.

  Ilona Andrews

  Pain, Yummy, Chocolate

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.45, Penguin

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• I hoped I wasn't actually dead. That would make finding our parents and saving the world really hard.

  James Patterson

  Parent, World, Saving

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• Challenges that tax our faith are usually opportunities to stretch and strengthen our faith by finding out if we really believe the Lord will help us.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Believe, Opportunity, Challenges

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• The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Character, Guy, Plot

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.389, Baen Books

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• When a man likes you, he will be interested in finding out what you like. If he makes you happy, he feels more secure. Everything men do is intended to impress women.

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  Sherry Argov

  Men, Likes, Make You Happy

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• Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.

  Dorothy Allison

  Knowing, Giving, Joy

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• Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

  Jonathan Swift

  Time, Lasts, World

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Riddles [and poems] by Dr. Swift and his friends. Verses addressed to Swift and to his memory. Epistolary correspondence”, p.25

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• First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another to find the meaning of life no doubt. But in the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. You cannot tell me who I am and I cannot tell you who you are. If you do not know your own identity, who is going to identify you?

  Thomas Merton

  Responsibility, Destiny, Men

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

  Blaise Pascal

  People, Unhappy, Three

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• Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.

  Julia Quinn

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Apr 27, 2017

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