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    Henry Miller
    “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
    ― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
    tags: books, power
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter… or at least, most minds are…”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: harry-potter, legilimency, mind-thoughts, severus-snape
    1688 likes

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    Ogden Nash
    “Tonight’s December thirty-first,
    Something is about to burst.
    The clock is crouching, dark and small,
    Like a time bomb in the hall.
    Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
    Duck! Here comes another year!”
    ― Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On
    tags: december-31, new-year-s-eve, new-years, new-years-eve
    2035 likes

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    Tom Waits
    “There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.”
    ― Tom Waits
    696 likes

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    Dan Brown
    “Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
    tags: intellect, lost-symbol, research
    1201 likes

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    Dan Brown
    “To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
    971 likes

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    Dan Brown
    “Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
    tags: knowledge
    3587 likes

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    Dan Brown
    “Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
    328 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
    11322 likes

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    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
    tags: irony, life, loneliness
    6381 likes

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    Umberto Eco
    “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
    tags: books
    3248 likes

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
    11387 likes

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    Anchee Min
    “If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.”
    ― Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir
    tags: fighting, mother, womb
    1155 likes

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    Lemony Snicket
    “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: humor, talking, writers
    4821 likes

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    Susan Sontag
    “My library is an archive of longings.”
    ― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
    tags: books, library, longing
    3434 likes

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    Arturo Pérez-Reverte
    “Never trust a man who reads only one book.”
    ― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Purity of Blood
    tags: books
    280 likes

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    Carl Sandburg
    “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
    ― Carl Sandburg
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    August Strindberg
    “Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
    ― August Strindberg, Miss Julie
    1673 likes

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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
    9718 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair”
    ― Stephen King
    244 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114167 likes

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  • #22
    Alan W. Watts
    “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
    ― Alan Watts
    3531 likes

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  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
    18871 likes

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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
    1639 likes

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  • #25
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
    25508 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: fear
    906 likes

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  • #27
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
    26988 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    150600 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
    20978 likes

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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
    35553 likes



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