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Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults: though you will usually need to have made a name in some more fashionable kind of literature before anyone will publish them.

Adulthood - Kindness - Making - Publishing - Story

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

Feelings - Reject - Sky

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Director, Philosopher, Philosopher

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Death - Leadership - Sadness - Silence

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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

Grief - Speaking

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Historian, Novelist

Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.

Economy - Eternity - Growing - Mythology - Nonsense - Progression - Stability

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Neil Gaiman

Author, Screenwriter

Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

Expose - Feelings - Mindset - People - Playing - Sound - Start - Story - Urgency - Vision - Voice - Writing

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Benito Mussolini

Former Prime Minister of Italy

The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.

Actions - Countries - Economy - Education - Fascism - Feelings - Meaning - Politics - State

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should tell a person how to spend their money. I try not to tell people what to read.

Feelings - People - Sometimes - Thinking - Trial

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Athlete, Novelist, Novelist

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

Comfort - Grief - Hopelessness

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Alexander Pope

Poet

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Death

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Martin Luther

Theologian, Professor, Monk

Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

Feelings - Wellness

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Anais Nin

Writer

I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.

Earth - Essence - Feelings - Secrets - Silence - Trap - Wellness

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Harper Lee

Novelist

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

Adulthood - Death - Good - Linguistics - Production

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Virginia Woolf

Writer

London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest.

Movement - Playing - Story

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

Feelings - Home - Wellness

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Laozi

Philosopher

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Death - Enlightenment - Inspiration - Spiritual

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H. G. Wells

Writer

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

Death - Drive - History - Mindset - Value

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Victor Hugo

Poet, Novelist, Dramatist

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

Feelings - Foolishness - Man

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Age - Death - Sarcasm - Sickness

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