"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on Simplicity
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"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Words
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"It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone."

King, Stephen on Words
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"(on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down... bring them low... and make them crawl."

King, Stephen on Love
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"He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate."

King, Stephen on Existence
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"When a man has died, he wants you to know about it."

King, Stephen on Death
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"Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts."

King, Stephen on Pain
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"Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes."

Hartnett, Sonya on Perspective
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"She was everything that was untouchable."

Hartnett, Sonya on beauty
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"Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing."

Hartnett, Sonya on Emotions
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"Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul."

Takami, Koushun on Love
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"Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to the music... Look at paintings and at times be moved. Laugh a lot, and at times, cry. And if you find a wonderful girl, then you go for her and love her."

Takami, Koushun on Life and Living
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"Even if it's a lie, even if it's a dream, please turn to me."

Takami, Koushun on Support
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"No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just... come out the other side. Or you don't."

King, Stephen on Change
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"His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead deck, his the eyes beyond the flames, his the grin from beyond the grave of the world."

King, Stephen on Death
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"A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help."

Shriver, Lionel on Lies and Lying
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"I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, make you safe."

Shriver, Lionel on Safety
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"You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump."

Fitch, Janet on Trust
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"What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me."

Fitch, Janet on Beauty
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"I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart."

Fitch, Janet on Security
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"Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow."

Fitch, Janet on Loneliness
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"My hatred gives me strength."

Fitch, Janet on Hatred
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"It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have."

Fitch, Janet on Destructiveness
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"This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster."

Fitch, Janet on Heartbreak
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"Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark."

King, Stephen on Growth
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"When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on Absence
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"If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either."

Unknown, Source on Achievement
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"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

James, William on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Hatred
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on Action
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"A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you."

Manson, Charles on Children
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"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

Phillpotts, Eden on Abundance
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"The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up."

Day, Dorothy on Abstinence
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"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

Fuller, Thomas on Absence
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"Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches."

Cibber, Colley on Absence
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"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."

John Paul II on Abortion
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"They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst."

Schefer, L. on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"Drunkenness is temporary suicide."

Russell, Bertrand on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread."

Havner, Vance on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts."

Chisholm, Shirley Anita on Addiction
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