2026 Reading Challenge

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    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130170 likes

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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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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: infatuation, love, memory, recollection, remembrance
    1666 likes

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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: life-death
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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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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    Charles Dickens
    “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: criticism, humor, writing
    2050 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books
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    Franz Kafka
    “A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

    [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: julia-cameron, writers, writing
    1542 likes

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  • #16
    Woody Allen
    “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: success
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    Woody Allen
    “I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.”
    ― Woody Allen
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    Sven Birkerts
    “I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose.”
    ― Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
    tags: books, novels, reading
    154 likes

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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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  • #23
    James Beard
    “I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.”
    ― James Beard
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    Mark Twain
    “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-satan
    6212 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: history
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  • #26
    Dee Dee M. Scott
    “I write the drama, I don't live it.”
    ― Dee Dee M Scott
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  • #27
    “You are stronger than you know.”
    ― Lori Newman
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    Margaret Atwood
    “There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”
    ― Margaret Atwood , Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
    tags: authors, disappointment, epigrams, fandom, on-writing, similes, writers
    377 likes

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  • #29
    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    ― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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  • #31
    Audre Lorde
    “Your silence will not protect you.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    tags: protection, silence, speech
    2907 likes



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