Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds to make their nests. Repeat, or the story will fall and all the king's horses and all the king's men. . . . Repeat, and cradle the pieces carefully, or events will scatter like marbles on a wooden floor.

Ann-Marie Macdonald's Popular Quotes

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

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She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing y…

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Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's bee…

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Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

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Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're …

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You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more power…

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The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

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There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding t…

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The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

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