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“¿No te duele un poco decirle subdesarrollado al país? ¿y que quieres que le diga?. Un país amateur”
― Quino, Mafalda 2

tags: humor, mafalda

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“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
― Federico Fellini

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#3

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#4

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

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“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
― Stephen King

tags: harry-potter, jk-rowling, stephenie-meyer, twilight

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#6

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

tags: courage, talent

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#7

“The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

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#8

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

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#9

“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

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#10

“We're all in this game together.”
― William Styron

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#11

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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#12

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

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#13

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

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#14

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

tags: hope, love

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#15

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#16

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: book-the-count-of-monte-cristo

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#17

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

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#18

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

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#19

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

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#20

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

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#21

“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
― Eavan Boland

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#22

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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#23

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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#24

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

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#25

“Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don’t even know I’m going.”
― Lily Tuck

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#26

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

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#27

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

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#28

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
― J.K. rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: fear

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#29

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

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#30

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

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