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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: books, originality, unique
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
    And all the sweet serenity of books”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: books, learning, love, serenity
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: books
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    Malcolm X
    “My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: books, reading
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: books, literature, on-fiction
    2595 likes

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    Judy Blume
    “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
    ― Judy Blume
    tags: books, censor, communication, freedom, philosophy
    2120 likes

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  • #7
    Stephen King
    “Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books, guns
    2216 likes

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    Jessamyn West
    “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
    ― Jessamyn West
    tags: books, on-fiction, reality, truth
    1356 likes

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  • #9
    Steven Wright
    “I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
    ― Steven Wright
    tags: books, humor
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  • #10
    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
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    Daniel Pennac
    “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
    6997 likes

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    Christopher Moore
    “Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.”
    ― Christopher Moore
    tags: books, stephenie-meyer, twilight, vampires
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    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Only bad books have good endings.
    If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”
    ― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret
    tags: books
    1180 likes

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  • #14
    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: books, e-readers, kindle, reading
    2711 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
    tags: authors, books, writing
    1169 likes

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  • #16
    “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
    ― Anne Herbert
    tags: book-lovers, books, money, reading
    981 likes

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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: books, christopher-hitchens, humour, literature, writing
    1186 likes

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  • #18
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: books, humor
    936 likes

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  • #19
    Confucius
    “You cannot open a book without learning something.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: books, learning, philosopher
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  • #20
    John Waters
    “Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”
    ― John Waters, Role Models
    tags: books, wealth
    768 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: books, life, writing
    636 likes

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  • #22
    “Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!”
    ― Charles Ogden
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  • #23
    “Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.”
    ― Peter S. Jennison
    tags: books, censorship, education, illiteracy, reading
    279 likes

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  • #24
    “If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.”
    ― John Berry
    tags: books, libraries, library, reading
    265 likes

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  • #25
    John Green
    “Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.”
    ― John Green
    tags: bakers, books, donuts, librarians, simile
    421 likes

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  • #26
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.”
    ― Somerset Maugham
    tags: books, meaning, somerset-maugham
    509 likes

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    Edmund Wilson
    “No two persons ever read the same book.”
    ― Edmund Wilson
    tags: books, perspective, reading
    783 likes

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  • #28
    Christopher Morley
    “When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.”
    ― Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
    235 likes

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    Agatha Christie
    “It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Clocks
    tags: books, bookstore
    331 likes

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  • #30
    Carolyn G. Heilbrun
    “Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.”
    ― Amanda Cross, Death in a Tenured Position
    101 likes



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