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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    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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    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
    tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Harper Lee
    “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
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    Ben Galley
    “I am not becoming someone different, I am simply getting to know the person I already am…”
    ― Ben Galley, The Written
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
    ― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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    Isabel Allende
    “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: books
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    Shel Silverstein
    “There are no happy endings.
    Endings are the saddest part,
    So just give me a happy middle
    And a very happy start.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith
    tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude
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    Sidney Sheldon
    “Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.”
    ― sidney sheldon
    tags: life
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    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    Walter Scott
    “All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
    ― Sir Walter Scott
    tags: education, homeschool
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  • #17
    Dee Brown
    “Nothing lives long
    Only the earth and mountains”
    ― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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    Johanna Lindsey
    “Do for yourself, for no one else will.”
    ― Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild
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    John Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
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    John Waters
    “You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.”
    ― John Waters, Role Models
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    John Waters
    “I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?”
    ― John Waters, Role Models
    tags: reading
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    John Waters
    “Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
    ― John Waters
    tags: art, creativity, inspiration, writing, writing-advice-process
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    Ransom Riggs
    “The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
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    Joris-Karl Huysmans
    “I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.”
    ― Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas
    tags: change, corrupt, corruption, crooked, cynical, cynicism, finance, humble, hypocrisy, man, mankind, mediocre, mediocrity, perfectibility, perfectible, pillage, placidity, politics, progress, rotten, selfish, selfishness, sin, sins, society, soul, triumph, unscrupulous, utopia, utopian, vice, vices, vile
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Even extreme grief may ultimately vent
    itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: temptation
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  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: happiness
    67 likes



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