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#1

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

#2

“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”
― Bernard Malamud

1438 likes

#3

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

47050 likes

#4

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: answers, correct, google, internet, libarary, librarian, librarians, right, search

1067 likes

#5

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

36835 likes

#6

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: love

9262 likes

#8

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17574 likes

#9

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns

3438 likes

#10

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

1313 likes

#11

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

tags: crazy, funny, words

1962 likes

#12

“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

12718 likes

#13

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

4138 likes

#14

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31524 likes

#15

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”
― Danielle Steel, Happy Birthday

1398 likes

#16

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

tags: books, inspirational

2980 likes

#17

“I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: insanity, stupidity

1815 likes

#18

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

tags: books, reading, rights

6986 likes

#19

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

3463 likes

#20

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

5543 likes

#21

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

3875 likes

#22

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

tags: imagination

2272 likes

#23

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

2887 likes

#24

“I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

tags: admiration, disagreement

621 likes

#25

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

1856 likes

#26

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

2477 likes

#27

“Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.

[Blog post, March 12, 2012]”
― Jim C. Hines

tags: freedom-of-speech, stupidity

308 likes

#28

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

3560 likes

#29

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

3195 likes

#30

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

2118 likes

#31

“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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