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    Christine Eaton
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      Alright, everyone, I’ve stumbled across a few amazing quotes during my reading. So I figured I should share them. Along with that, I want to hear what quotes everyone else has picked up too. (If you want you can quote song lyrics) Just use this topic to discuss and share them.

      “Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.” -From the book, Jayber Crow, by Wendell Berry.

      “The very existence of great stories and stirring music and good art is a sermon itself. That anyone would set their sad heart and tired hands to the work of wreaking beauty out of chaos is a monument to Grace. It reminds us of light and high beauty, and it laments the world’s great sorrow. It gives the heart language to rejoice and language to mourn.” -Andrew Peterson.

      Theater kid. Currently depressed because I can't stop listening to sad musicals.

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      Jackson Graham
      @warrioroftherealm
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        “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill

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        Christine Eaton
        @christi-eaton
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          That’s a good one! @warrioroftherealm

          Theater kid. Currently depressed because I can't stop listening to sad musicals.

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          Emma Flournoy
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            “There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them.” —Elie Wiesel


            @Kate-Flournoy
            , I think you’ll appreciate this one.

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            Kate Flournoy
            @kate-flournoy
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              @Emma-Flournoy ummmmmmmm… yeah. All in the subtext, deary.

              Let’s see… one of my favorite quotes, not necessarily about writing, but about life, which is about writing in a way… or is writing about life? I don’t remember anymore. 😛 Anyway, I love this quote. It’s attributed to William Wallace.

              Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.

              Adry_Grace
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                some of my favorites is from a poem called the Hero, these are just lines I picked and choosed from the poem, but the entire thing is good.

                “It was very great and noble,”
                Said the moist-eyed listener then,
                “But one brave deed makes no hero;
                Tell me what he since hath been!”

                “But dream not helm and harness
                The sign of valor true;
                Peace hath higher tests of manhood
                Than battle ever knew”

                “Wherever rise the peoples,
                Wherever sinks a throne,
                The throbbing heart of Freedom finds
                An answer in his own.”

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                Adry_Grace
                @adry_grace
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                  Oh a couple more because these are just too good:

                  Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertion and passionate concern of dedicated individuals
                  -Martin Luther King Jr.

                  Behold the turtle. he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out
                  -James Bryant Conant

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                  Hope Ann
                  @hope
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                    @warrioroftherealm Love that quote! (I love your profile picture too, by the way)

                    Life is too short for reading inferior books
                    – James Bryce

                    INTJ - Inhumane. No-feelings. Terrible. Judgment and doom on everyone.

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                    Christine Eaton
                    @christi-eaton
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                      Great quote @hope 🙂 🙂 🙂

                      Theater kid. Currently depressed because I can't stop listening to sad musicals.

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