Quotes - Tara Ryan-Gallagher (taroryga) Showing 1-27 of 27

#1

“Literature is analysis after the event.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

tags: literature

#2

“I’m always amazed at how books find us at the time we need them, as if there’s some omniscient, benevolent librarian in the sky.”
― Eve Babitz, Black Swans

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#3

“No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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#4

“A good bookstore,” Charlie says, “is like an airport where you don’t have to take your shoes off.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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#5

“Some books you don’t read so much as live, and finishing one of those always makes me think of ascending from a scuba dive. Like if I surface too fast I might get the bends.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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#6

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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#7

“There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: cat, cat-s, cradle, kurt, vonnegut

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#8

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#9

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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#10

“Never underestimate the power of fiction to tell the truth.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

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#11

“Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

tags: butch, gender, gender-non-conforming, lesbian, nature, stone-butch-blues

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#12

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspiration

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#13

“I closed the box and put it in a closet.
There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”
― Joan Didion, Where I Was From

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#14

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

tags: books

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#15

“...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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#16

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: reading-books

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#17

“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”
― Louisa May Alcott

tags: books, reading

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#18

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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#19

“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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#20

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: equality, humanity, imagination, loneliness, poetry, solipsism, world

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#21

“But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

tags: dragons

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#22

“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: books, reading

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#23

“Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Telling

tags: belief, knowledge

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#24

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

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#25