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    “Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.”
    ― Paxton Hood
    tags: books, choosing, reading, reading-books
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    Wallace Stevens
    “The reader became the book; and summer night
    Was like the conscious being of the book.”
    ― Wallace Stevens
    tags: reading-books
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: art, arts, arts-and-humanities, book, books, culture, easy-going, enjoying-art, enjoyment, funny, funny-book-quotes, humanities, i-love-art, i-love-books, i-love-reading, i-love-to-read, laid-back, literature, reading, reading-books, taking-your-time
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  • #4
    “Love is a rebellious bird,
    that nobody can tame,
    and you call him quite in vain,
    if it suits him not to come.”
    ― Ludovic Halévy
    tags: love, opera
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  • #5
    Hal Borland
    “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
    ― Hal Borland
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  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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  • #7
    John Grisham
    “In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
    ― John Grisham
    tags: inspirational-life
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  • #8
    George Saunders
    “Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
    ― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone
    tags: confusion, life, open, possibilities
    1962 likes

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  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
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  • #10
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet
    tags: self
    2000 likes

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  • #11
    William Arthur Ward
    “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: realist
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  • #12
    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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  • #13
    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    ― George S. Patton
    tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton
    2771 likes

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  • #14
    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: thinking
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  • #15
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
    8475 likes

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  • #16
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
    8183 likes

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  • #17
    Steve Jobs
    “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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  • #18
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
    10858 likes

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  • #19
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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  • #20
    Norman Mailer
    “Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
    ― Norman Mailer
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  • #21
    Daniel Defoe
    “It is never too late to be wise.”
    ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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  • #22
    Sue Grafton
    “Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
    ― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice
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    Gary Paulsen
    “If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
    The book needs you.”
    ― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room
    tags: books
    2573 likes

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  • #24
    Lorraine Hansberry
    “The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
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  • #25
    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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  • #26
    “Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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  • #27
    Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad
    “Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: humor
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  • #28
    Adrienne Rich
    “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.”
    ― Adrienne Rich
    tags: critical-thinking, empowerment, feminism, independent-thought, responsibility, self-determination, self-respect, women
    601 likes

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  • #29
    Adrienne Rich
    “[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”
    ― Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
    tags: poetry
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  • #30
    Adrienne Rich
    “If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.”
    ― Adrienne Rich
    164 likes



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