Bright Quotes

2017-02-12 11:24:43 February 12, 2017

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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American president Abraham Lincoln's (born February 12, 1809) favorite childhood books included: Aesop's Fables, Robinson Crusoe, and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography.

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2017-02-08 11:06:04 February 8, 2017

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin

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Kate Chopin (born February 8, 1850) wrote the early feminist novel The Awakening. She first began writing on the advice of her doctor, who thought that it would be therapeutic after the close deaths of her mother and her husband.

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2017-01-31 11:25:09 January 31, 2017

“You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.”
― Norman Mailer

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Norman Mailer (January 31, 1923-November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director who won the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. He is considered one of the innovators of New Journalism, a style of writing that brought literary styles and techniques to the reporting of real-life events. Mailer also co-founded The Village Voice, the weekly paper initially distributed in Greenwich Village.

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2017-01-30 11:40:39 January 30, 2017

“This is the world as it is. This is where you start.”
― Saul D. Alinsky

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Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909-June 12, 1972) was a Chicago-born community organizer and writer often considered the founder of modern community organizing. He worked to improve the living conditions of poorer communities across North America. Alinsky is known for his 1971 book Rules for Radicals which counsels activists on achieving change and knowing “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.”

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2017-01-28 11:03:22 January 28, 2017

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”
― Jane Austen

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On January 28, 1813, Jane Austen’s second novel Pride and Prejudice was published. The beloved classic follows Elizabeth Bennett on a comic, sharply observed, and romantic journey of manners, morality, and marriage amid the English landed gentry. An enduring favorite since publication, the novel has been adapted numerous times for film and television and spawned hundreds of spin-off books.

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2017-01-25 13:02:40 January 25, 2017

“But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.”
― Gloria Naylor

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Gloria Naylor (January 25, 1950-September 28, 2016) was an acclaimed American novelist who received numerous honors for her fiction chronicling the experiences of black women. Her most popular work, The Women of Brewster Place, won the National Book Award for first fiction in 1983 and was made into a miniseries starring Oprah Winfrey. Her other books include Linden Hills, Mama Day, and Bailey's Café. In addition to novels, Naylor wrote essays and screenplays.

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2017-01-24 11:22:19 January 24, 2017

“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”
― Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862-August 11, 1937) was born into a wealthy New York family and used her insider’s view of America’s privileged classes to depict old moneyed society with humor, wit, and brilliance. In 1921 she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Age of Innocence, her 12th novel. Her other books include The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome.

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2017-01-23 11:07:08 January 23, 2017

“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”
― Stendhal

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Stendhal, the pseudonym of Henri-Marie Beyle, was a French writer born January 23, 1783, who is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism because of his interest in his characters’ psychology. He is best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839).

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2017-01-22 13:25:42 January 22, 2017

“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
― George Gordon Byron

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George Gordon Byron, more commonly known as Lord Byron, was an influential British poet who lived from January 22, 1788 to April 19, 1824. Alongside Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats, Byron was a key figure in the Romantic movement and is considered one of the greatest British poets. His best-known works include the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric poem "She Walks in Beauty."

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2017-01-21 11:40:22 January 21, 2017

“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”
― Gretel Ehrlich

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Happy birthday, Gretel Ehrlich! The American travel writer, novelist, essayist, and poet, was born on January 21, 1946, near Santa Barbara, California. She began writing full-time while living on a ranch in Wyoming in 1978 following the death of a loved one. Her 1985 debut, The Solace of Open Spaces, is a collection of essays on rural life in Wyoming.

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