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#1

“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.”
― H.G. Wells

tags: writing

249 likes

#2

“Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

tags: correspondence, love, writers

800 likes

#3

“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

1636 likes

#4

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

1639 likes

#5

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17086 likes

#6

“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

tags: humor, life-lessons, wrestling

1485 likes

#7

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

9724 likes

#8

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

12169 likes

#9

“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

1014 likes

#10

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

4327 likes

#11

“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: cartoonist, humor, inspirational

3304 likes

#12

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

4285 likes

#13

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

5290 likes

#14

“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: moi

6621 likes

#15

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
― Edward Gibbon

1019 likes

#16

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines

2131 likes

#17

“You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

tags: inspirational

277 likes

#19

“The world will always choose convenience over reality. It's easier to hate, blame, and fear than it is to understand. No one wants the truth; they want entertainment.”
― Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell

427 likes

#20

“To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.”
― Chris Colfer

136 likes

#21

“I've learned that the more people embrace their disadvantages, the less disadvantaged they become!”
― Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell

171 likes

#22

“Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

720 likes

#23

“Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

tags: apologizing, sorry

434 likes

#24

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

10118 likes

#25

“Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

538 likes

#26

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

3798 likes

#27

“When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

1836 likes

#28

“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

1992 likes

#29

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148456 likes

#30

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: life

11449 likes

#31

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

3752 likes

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