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Amanda
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“Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to...”
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Lewis Carroll,
Alice in Wonderland
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“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
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Emily Jane Brontë ,
Wuthering Heights
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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#5
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
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William Shakespeare,
As You Like It
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#6
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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Oscar Wilde
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
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Jane Austen,
Northanger Abbey
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#8
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
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Dr. Seuss
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#9
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
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Neil Gaiman,
Coraline
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#10
“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
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Shel Silverstein
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#11
“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
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Ayn Rand,
The Fountainhead
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#12
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
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Lemony Snicket,
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
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#13
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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Ernest Hemingway
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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
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C.S. Lewis
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#15
“When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.”
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Walt Disney
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#16
“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
―
J.M. Barrie
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#17
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
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Sir Francis Bacon
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#18
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”
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Anaïs Nin
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#19
“I don't drink water. Fish fuck in it.”
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W.C. Fields
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“well-read woman is a beautifully fearsome creature.”
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Keri Lake,
Eldritch
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