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    Leah Raeder
    “I respect people who get nerdy as fuck about something they love”
    ― Leah Raeder, Unteachable
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    Natsuki Takaya
    “Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”
    ― Natsuki Takaya
    tags: fruits-basket, hurt, save, words, yuki
    1260 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
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    Ray Bradbury
    “There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    Daniel Keyes
    “I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: death, fear, life
    1014 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: censorship
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
    tags: life
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    Tom Perrotta
    “He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
    ― Tom Perrotta, Joe College
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    Maurice Sendak
    “A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
    ― Maurice Sendak
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Edgar Lee Masters
    “To this generation I would say:
    Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
    ― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    Diana Wynne Jones
    “I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.”
    ― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air
    tags: dog, humor
    397 likes

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    Rick Yancey
    “We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: inspirational, life
    1076 likes

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    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: inspirational-quotes, strength-and-courage
    16607 likes

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    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    ― Annie Proulx
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    Daniel Keyes
    “Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    726 likes

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    Daniel Keyes
    “There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin."

    --Charlie Gordan”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: begin, doors, impatient
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    Leah Raeder
    “That is all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.”
    ― Leah Raeder, Unteachable
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    William Faulkner
    “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: inspirational, perfectionism, personality, potential, self-improvement
    1439 likes

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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    Brett J. Talley
    “I don't understand exactly what's going on, but Goodreads shouldn't be deleting reviews, period. People are smart enough to look at them on their own and make up their mind, and deleting reviews undermines the integrity of the site.”
    ― Brett J. Talley
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden
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    Elspeth Huxley
    “How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”
    ― Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
    tags: filters
    1035 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
    35636 likes

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  • #29
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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    Jared Diamond
    “[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.”
    ― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    tags: error, stubbornness, values
    62 likes



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