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"Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else."
— Pseudonymous Bosch (The Name of this Book is Secret)

tags: anime, book, books, boschemotions-title-of-this, funny, head, humor, is, manga, provoke, pseudonymous, secret, someone, throwing, troublesome
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"Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)"
— Pseudonymous Bosch

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"Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance. (Men of the Otherworld)"
— Kelley Armstrong (Men of the Otherworld)

28 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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"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
11,392 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,555 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
7,786 people liked it

"Today is the tomorrow that you worried about yestarday."
— Mary Van Dyke

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"Smile when you want to, cry when you need to, and laugh whenever possible! "
— Dove chocolate rappers

tags: inspirational
4 people liked it

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

tags: humor, procrastination
5,740 people liked it

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
— Theodore Roosevelt

77 people liked it

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
3,950 people liked it

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
4,862 people liked it

"What an author doesn't know could fill a book."
— Holly Black (Lucinda's Secret)

tags: author, books, knowledge
42 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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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
6,787 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
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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,528 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
6,237 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
5,846 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,796 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
5,666 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,395 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,559 people liked it

"Tina Fey: "It has been said that to write is to live forever."

Steve Martin: "The man who said that is dead."

Fey: "Yet, we all know the importance of writing, because every great movie begins with a great screenplay."

Martin: "Or, a very good idea for the poster. But usually, with a screenplay."

Fey: "And every writer starts with a blank page."

Martin: "And every blank page was once a tree."

Fey: "And every tree was once a tiny seed."

Martin: "And every tiny seed on Earth was placed here by the alien king Rondelay, to foster our titrates and fuel our positive transfers!"
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— Steve Martin

tags: humor, movies, writing
22 people liked it

"A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair."
— Steve Martin

tags: celebrity
19 people liked it

"Some people have a way with words....some people....not have way."
— Steve Martin (Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life)

tags: humor
178 people liked it

"Writers block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, writing
74 people liked it

"First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me."
— Steve Martin

39 people liked it

"I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor
23 people liked it

"There is no off position on the genius button."
— CBS Inc. CBS News.

tags: genius, humor
2 people liked it

"No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same."
— Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)

47 people liked it

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