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morois are born..but strigois are made..! ↗

— Richelle Mead

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I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die. ↗

— Bear Grylls

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Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories. ↗

— Amy Neftzger

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I owe a huge debt to Anaïs Nin, because I fell into her diaries, essays, and collected letters in my Twenties and Thirties like a fish falling into water. She was, in some ways, a deeply flawed human being, and perhaps she makes a strange kind of hero for someone like me, committed to the ethical and spiritual dimensions of my craft as well as to the technical ones, but a hero and strong influence she remains nonetheless. Source: Her blog. ↗

— Terri Windling

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People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting ↗

— Amish Tripathi

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Do not be concerned with how others treat you. Be only concerned with how you treat others. ↗

— Julia Heywood

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A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

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Hendaknya kita mengukur ilmu bukan dari tumpukan buku yang kita habiskan. Bukan dari tumpukan naskah yang kita hasilkan. Bukan juga dari penatnya mulut dalam diskusi tak putus yang kita jalani. Tapi…dari amal (action) yang keluar dari setiap desah nafas kita ↗

— Ibnul Qoyyim Al-Jauziyyah

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