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"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
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"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
— Katherine Mansfield

68 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
5,445 people liked it

"There is no Frigate like a book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry..."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: books, reading
58 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
6,693 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
7,375 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,179 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
7,220 people liked it

"Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

tags: memories
251 people liked it

"Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."
— Arnold Lobel

tags: books, reading
371 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television
2,797 people liked it

"I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things."
— George Gissing

tags: books, reading
1 person liked it

"There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight"
— Ezra Pound

tags: books
29 people liked it

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book."
— Marcel Proust

tags: books, childhood, reading
27 people liked it

"The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books."
— George Gissing

13 people liked it

"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
— Michel de Montaigne (Les Essais)

70 people liked it

"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."
— Hermann Hesse

tags: books
75 people liked it

"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love."
— Christopher Morley

tags: bibliophilia, books
128 people liked it

"All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time."
— John Ruskin (Sesame and Lilies)

tags: books
20 people liked it

"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

tags: art, artists
47 people liked it

"Try to reason about love, and you will loose your reason.
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— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

tags: 8, top
2 people liked it

"Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make."
— Euripides

31 people liked it

"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. "
— Oscar Wilde

tags: desire, humoristic
4 people liked it

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
— William James

tags: attitude, psychology
1 person liked it

"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. "
— Eudora Welty

tags: attitude, life
1 person liked it

"I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely."
— Carson McCullers

10 people liked it

"As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable."
— Doris Lessing

tags: age
4 people liked it

"They are the we of me."
— Carson McCullers (The Member of the Wedding: A Play)

tags: marriage
9 people liked it

"The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else."
— Carson McCullers (The Square Root of Wonderful)

tags: care, caring
3 people liked it

"That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing."
— Anthony Trollope

21 people liked it

"What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?"
— Anthony Trollope

8 people liked it

"His comments did not deserve the compliment of a rational reply."
— Jane Austen

32 people liked it

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
— Jane Austen (Emma)

tags: classic, life, novel
16 people liked it

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."
— Frederick Douglass

tags: soul
8 people liked it

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."
— Frederick Douglass

6 people liked it

"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave."
— Frederick Douglass

tags: abolition, human, politics, rights, slavery, suffrage
4 people liked it

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. "
— W. Somerset Maugham

96 people liked it

"There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved."
— W. Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage)

22 people liked it

"It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart."
— William Faulkner

47 people liked it

"Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing."
— William Faulkner

30 people liked it

"Where there is great love, there are always miracles. "
— Willa Cather

tags: love
165 people liked it

"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own."
— Willa Cather

9 people liked it

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others."
— Groucho Marx

254 people liked it

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
— Groucho Marx

333 people liked it

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
— Groucho Marx

tags: classic-insult
368 people liked it

"Choosing is Aging."
— Philippe Soupault (Last Nights of Paris)

3 people liked it

"Love is lak de sea. It's uh moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."
— Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God)

2 people liked it

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."
— Mark Twain

tags: newspapers
497 people liked it

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
— Joseph Joubert

tags: books, reading
388 people liked it

"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

355 people liked it

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