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    Neil Gaiman
    “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: books, feminist, reading
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
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    Matsuo Bashō
    “The journey itself is my home.”
    ― Matsuo Basho
    tags: travel
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  • #6
    I read; I travel; I become
    “I read; I travel; I become”
    ― Derek Walcott
    tags: read, travel
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: dirty, funny, logo, sex
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Maya Angelou
    “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: loneliness, music, refuge
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: goals, journey, travel
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    Mark Twain
    “I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
    ― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
    tags: humor, travel
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
    ― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
    tags: inspirational, journey, quest, seekers, travel
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
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    Anna Quindlen
    “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, reading, travel
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    Erma Bombeck
    “Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?”
    ― Erma Bombeck
    tags: airports, luggage, travel
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: anger, books, friends, greedy, life, loneliness, man, myself, selfish, travel, woman, work, write
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: glitter, journey, shine, tolkien, travel, wander, wanderlust
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    John Lubbock
    “We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”
    ― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life
    tags: library, reading, travel
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    Cesare Pavese
    “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.
    You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
    ― Cesare Pavese
    tags: travel
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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
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    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    ― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
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    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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    John Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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