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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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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101489 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Lev Grossman
    “That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
    ― Lev Grossman, The Magician King
    tags: difficulty, expectations, world
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    Lev Grossman
    “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
    ― Lev Grossman, The Magicians
    tags: life-truths, reality-check
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    Lev Grossman
    “[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.”
    ― Lev Grossman, The Magicians
    tags: contentment, destiny, happiness, life, misery, perfection, satisfaction, unhappiness
    546 likes

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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, children
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    Patricia C. Wrede
    “Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?”

    “Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen, and neither will Therandil.”

    “I didn’t ask what you’d said about it,” the frog snapped. “I asked what you’re going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”
    ― Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons
    tags: actions-over-words, frog, funny
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
    tags: books, shiver
    723 likes

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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin
    tags: books, reading
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    Lois Lowry
    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share
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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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    Lev Grossman
    “A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength. ”
    ― Lev Grossman, The Magicians
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    Lev Grossman
    “We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.”
    ― Lev Grossman
    tags: expectations, meaning, reality, world
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    Lev Grossman
    “Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”
    ― Lev Grossman, The Magician King
    tags: mind-over-matter
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
    tags: beautiful, completion, love, music, recognition, sad
    1561 likes

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  • #23
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “...she made her home in between the pages of books.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
    tags: book-lover, grace
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Patricia A. McKillip
    “The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”
    ― Patricia A. McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, readers, reading
    1101 likes

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  • #26
    “If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: humor, science-fiction-movie
    208 likes

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  • #27
    “Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: individuality
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  • #28
    “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: writing
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
    11322 likes

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    Robin Sloan
    “Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”
    ― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
    tags: books, libraries
    600 likes



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