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“We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It has been said that there must be a villain for every hero, a demon for every angel, a monster for every god. Despite what we are, I do not believe this. I have seen the villainous act heroic, and men called heroes act villainous. The ability to heal does not make one good any more than the ability to kill makes one evil. Kill the right people, and you become a hero. Heal the wrong ones, and you become a villain. It is our choices that define us, not our abilities.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
― Stephen King

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
― Tom Perrotta, Election

“Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.”
― Brian Moore

“What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.”
― Brent Weeks

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson