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"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
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"Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
very long for those who lament
Very short for those who celebrate
But for those who love time is eternal"
— William Shakespeare

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"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

120 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
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"The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on."
— Robert Bloch

tags: humor
110 people liked it

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."
— George F. Will

tags: humor
112 people liked it

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me."
— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

tags: humor
112 people liked it

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other guy die for his."
— George S. Patton Jr.

tags: humor
74 people liked it

"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."
— Ed Gardner

tags: bleeding, funny, humor, opera, stabbed-
228 people liked it

"What happened to happily ever after?

Reality killed it."
— Kenzie

tags: after, ever, happily, humor, reality
66 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,635 people liked it

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
2,215 people liked it

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
2,023 people liked it

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading
1,741 people liked it

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: death, inspirational
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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain

tags: death, life
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"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
— Mark Twain

tags: age
808 people liked it

"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Letter to Joseph Twichell, 9/13/1898"
— Mark Twain

tags: austen, criticism, jerk, reading, writing
254 people liked it

"But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to."
— Alyson Noel (Saving Zoë: A Novel)

tags: thought-provoking
35 people liked it

"Any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told that I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it just to stand one minute on God's earth a free woman."
— Elizabeth Freeman

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"In my opinon, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with."
— Diablo Cody (Juno: The Shooting Script)

29 people liked it

""Its not how many years in your life you've lived, but how much life in your years, its not how long you've lived but how you've lived.""
— Abraham Lincoln

9 people liked it

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."
— Abraham Lincoln

11 people liked it

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best."
— Tim Duncan

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"Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

65 people liked it

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
— Ronald Reagan

73 people liked it

"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."
— Ronald Reagan

47 people liked it

"Life is one grand sweet song so start the music"
— Ronald Reagan

tags: music, reagan
4 people liked it

"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
— Rita Mae Brown

tags: procrastination
44 people liked it

"What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful."
— Scott Westerfeld

tags: beauty, david, uglies, westerfeld
265 people liked it

"You see, freedom has a way of destroying things."
— Scott Westerfeld (Extras)

tags: destruction, freedom
164 people liked it

"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side."
— Scott Westerfeld

tags: love
341 people liked it

"Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them."
— Alice Sebold

79 people liked it

"I may die young, but at least I'll die smart."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

56 people liked it

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