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    Rod Serling
    “This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . .
    Next stop The Twilight Zone.”
    ― Rod Serling
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    Matt Groening
    “I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
    ― Matt Groening
    tags: family, humor, language, satire, simpsons, social-commentary
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    Gary Larson
    “Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.”
    ― Gary Larson, The Complete Far Side, 1980–1994
    tags: cartoon, humor, satire, social-commentary
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    Yogi Berra
    “Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.”
    ― Yogi Berra
    tags: humor, pie
    166 likes

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  • #5
    “A satirist is never certain whether he/she will be acclaimed or punished.”
    ― Edgar Johnson, A Treasury of Satire
    tags: humor, satire
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
    13094 likes

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    Jarod Kintz
    “Reading—it’s the third best thing to do in bed.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible
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    J.J. Brown
    “Mother took the pie out of the oven and it hissed fragrant apple, maple, cinnamon steam through the knife cuts in the top crust. She was making her world beautiful. She was making her world delicious. It could be done, and if anyone could do it, she could.”
    ― J.J. Brown, Death and the Dream
    tags: apple-pie, baking, pie
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  • #9
    Chrissy Anderson
    “The difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything.”
    ― Chrissy Anderson
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  • #10
    Voltaire
    “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

    (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: enmity, humor, prayers, religion, ridicule, satire, social-justice, social-life
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  • #11
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers...”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri
    tags: fortune-cookies, funny, humor, humorous, humour, silly, social-media, tools, twitter, twitter-quotes, writers, writing, writing-tools
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    Meredith Schorr
    “don't put all your eggs in one bastard”
    ― Meredith Schorr, Just Friends With Benefits
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    Nick Harkaway
    “A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life.”
    ― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
    tags: life, parable, pie
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  • #15
    “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
    ― David Mamet, Boston Marriage
    tags: dessert, eating, food, humor, pie, stress
    670 likes

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    David Sedaris
    “A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
    ― David Sedaris
    tags: reading, self-awareness, short-stories, writing
    322 likes

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    Adriana Trigiani
    “I even love the smell of books.”
    ― Adriana Trigiani
    tags: books, reading
    354 likes

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    Meredith Schorr
    “I was a witch and like a witch, deserved to have a house fall on top of me while wearing my favorite shoes”
    ― Meredith Schorr, Blogger Girl
    tags: chick-lit, romantic-comedy
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    Kristen Lamb
    “Persistence can look a lot like stupid.”
    ― Kristen Lamb, Are You There Blog? It's Me, Writer
    tags: kristen-lamb, publishing, wana, we-are-not-alone, writers, writing
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    Meredith Schorr
    “I truly believed Facebook was created by Satan as a way to turn completely sane people into obsessed stalkers.”
    ― Meredith Schorr, Blogger Girl
    tags: chicklit, romantic-comedy
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Lorrie Moore
    “A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
    ― Lorrie Moore
    tags: novels, short-stories, writing
    1939 likes

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  • #23
    “When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.”
    ― Ann Patchett
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  • #24
    Elbert Hubbard
    “This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: american-politics
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  • #25
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
    27735 likes

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  • #26
    Dr. Seuss
    “You can find magic
    wherever you look.
    Sit back and relax,
    all you need is a book.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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  • #27
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
    27861 likes

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  • #29
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
    23675 likes

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  • #30
    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
    17574 likes



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