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

tags: literacy
6,124 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
5,571 people liked it

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
— Mark Twain

tags: facts, humor
346 people liked it

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

tags: humor, procrastination
5,655 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
6,232 people liked it

"Here’s the thing… I’ve already gone crazy once. I know what my limits are."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

tags: crazy, humor
1,246 people liked it

"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
161 people liked it

"Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
— T.S. Eliot

tags: life, poetry
76 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,521 people liked it

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: life, surrealistic
403 people liked it

"There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he less savage than the other savages."
— Mark Twain

tags: civilization
123 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
943 people liked it

"if a cluttered desk is that of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk?"
— Albert Einstein

237 people liked it

"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.
I'd been broken beyond repair."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

tags: heart-break, love
3,419 people liked it

"Always be a poet, even in prose."
— Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing
164 people liked it

"What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right."
— Albert Einstein

188 people liked it

"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fantasy, fiction, tolkien, writing
162 people liked it

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? "
— Albert Einstein

103 people liked it

"The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent... "
— Charlotte Brontë

tags: writing
18 people liked it

"Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots "
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
77 people liked it

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos."
— Mary Shelley

tags: chaos, creativity, invention, originality, writing
19 people liked it

"Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else."
— Albert Einstein

54 people liked it

"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

tags: freedom, women, writing
427 people liked it

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inpirational
51 people liked it

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,686 people liked it

"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking"
— Albert Einstein

29 people liked it

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

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
1,639 people liked it

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: friendship
29 people liked it

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

tags: art, books
191 people liked it

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship
2,026 people liked it

"We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever."
— Philip Pullman

tags: books, companionship, inspirational, religious
379 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
702 people liked it

"Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read."
— Virginia Woolf (Between the Acts)

tags: books, read, reading
21 people liked it

"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship, love
179 people liked it

"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."
— Philip Pullman

tags: books, stories, writing
144 people liked it

"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
150 people liked it

"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you."
— Harold Bloom

tags: books, solitude
25 people liked it

"All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Two Towers)

tags: fantasy
31 people liked it

"There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees."
— Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)

tags: books
25 people liked it

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor
2,902 people liked it

"Resist much. Obey little."
— Walt Whitman

tags: poetry
413 people liked it

"About three things I was absolutely positive:
First, Edward was a vampire;
Second, there was a part of him -- and I didn't know how dominant that part might be -- that thirsted for my blood;
And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

tags: bella, edward, vampire
1,715 people liked it

"Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems)

tags: age, heroism, poetry, ulysses
87 people liked it

"I wish," he whispered. "I wish you could feel...the complexity...the confusion...I feel. That you could understand."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

tags: vampire
88 people liked it

"I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE"
"You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: ache, death, hurt, life, pain
318 people liked it

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
— Robert Frost

tags: poetry
209 people liked it

"And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world."
— Anne Rice (Pandora)

tags: grief, pain
8 people liked it

"There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: poetry, wit
33 people liked it

"There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'!"
— J.K. Rowling

125 people liked it

"We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time."
— T.S. Eliot (Four Quartets)

tags: poetry
132 people liked it

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