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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine
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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    ― Henry Ward Beecherr
    tags: books, humor
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    Patricia A. McKillip
    “Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
    ― Patricia A. McKillip
    tags: imagination
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    James Branch Cabell
    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    ― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion
    tags: optimism, pessimism
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    Seán O'Casey
    “When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
    ― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]
    tags: hope, sun
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    Maxim Gorky
    “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
    ― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays
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    Walter Mosley
    “A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
    ― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall
    tags: reading
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    Alice Walker
    “Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
    ― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
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    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
    ― W.E.B. Du Bois
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    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    “Never say more than is necessary.”
    ― Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    tags: essay, history
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    Cynthia Ozick
    “We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
    ― Cynthia Ozick
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    Paula Fox
    “The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
    ― Paula Fox
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    Daniel Defoe
    “It is never too late to be wise.”
    ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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    John Keats
    “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
    ― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems
    tags: philosophy, religion, science
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Every great love starts with a great story...”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: romance, storytelling
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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
    ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems
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    Bram Stoker
    “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
    ― Bram Stoker
    tags: dracula
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    Ruth Westheimer
    “A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
    ― Ruth K. Westheimer
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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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    Maurice Sendak
    “A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
    ― Maurice Sendak
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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    Katharine Graham
    “The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
    ― Katharine Graham
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    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: writing
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: courage, reputation
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    William Strunk Jr.
    “Omit needless words.”
    ― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly
    tags: writing-words
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
    ― Herman Hesse
    tags: steppenwolf
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: heartache, love
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