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“Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”

— Jack Kerouac

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“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”

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Jack Kerouac

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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

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“I’m going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”

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Jack Kerouac

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“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart”

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Tahereh Mafi

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“We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

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“The best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature.”

— Henry Miller

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“I write because you exist.”

— Michael Faudet

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“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt … that I had a beehive … inside my heart. and the golden bees were making … sweet honey from my old failures”

— Antonio Machado

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“Your worth is determined by you, and with no need for an explanation to anyone.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes ... Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

— Henry Miller

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“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it… when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”

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John Green

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“I was never insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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All of my life, a voice has whispered softly in my ear: live, live, live! It was death.

— Jaime Sabines

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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. ― Albert Camus