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"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: happiness
650 people liked it

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep
358 people liked it

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: war
54 people liked it

"You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much."
— Jeffrey Eugenides

7 people liked it

"She wanted out of that decorating scheme."
— Jeffrey Eugenides

3 people liked it

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell

tags: truth
529 people liked it

"The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
— George Orwell

tags: history
134 people liked it

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: truth
70 people liked it

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
— George Orwell

tags: liberty
57 people liked it

"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: inspirational
17 people liked it

"Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: life, living
13 people liked it

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: food, love, music
1,123 people liked it

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
— William Shakespeare

tags: friendship
618 people liked it

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
— William Shakespeare

tags: comedy, elizabethan, goodfellow, robin
247 people liked it

"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
— William Shakespeare

tags: hamlet, identity, possibilities
254 people liked it

"Presume not that I am the thing I was."
— William Shakespeare

117 people liked it

"To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come..."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: hamlet, shakespeare
70 people liked it

"Et tu, Brute?"
— William Shakespeare

tags: brutus, julius-caesar, shakespeare
40 people liked it

"In time we hate that which we often fear."
— William Shakespeare

42 people liked it

"I am a woman--when I think I must speak."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It: Applause First Folio Editions)

47 people liked it

"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it."
— William Shakespeare

45 people liked it

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
— William Shakespeare

35 people liked it

"I am fortune's fool"
— William Shakespeare

tags: classic
24 people liked it

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
— Gustave Flaubert

tags: books, inspirational, life, reading
909 people liked it

"Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory."
— Gustave Flaubert

13 people liked it

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."
— Gustave Flaubert

12 people liked it

"All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

739 people liked it

"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

97 people liked it

"I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: hobbit, my, personal, quote, tolkien
24 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
8,961 people liked it

"See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else."
— Rebecca Wells (Little Altars Everywhere: A Novel)

tags: reading
15 people liked it

"life is short but it is wide. this too shall pass."
— Rebecca Wells (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)

10 people liked it

"Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable."
— Anne Rice

17 people liked it

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
— Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
467 people liked it

"Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?"
— Albert Camus

tags: coffee, sucide
153 people liked it

"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."
— Albert Camus

57 people liked it

"When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help."
— Thomas Harris (The Silence of the Lambs)

tags: hannibal, murder
8 people liked it

"For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me."
— William Blake

tags: forgivness, love
42 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,162 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,377 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
6,602 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
6,992 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
6,697 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
5,830 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
5,875 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,344 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,458 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,241 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,757 people liked it

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