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#1

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27744 likes

#2

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning, mentoring

2202 likes

#3

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

tags: education

2892 likes

#4

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: education, schooling, university

2010 likes

#5

“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

23102 likes

#6

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

26995 likes

#7

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

tags: books, classic, reading

18882 likes

#8

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading

8667 likes

#9

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: reading

13690 likes

#10

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

tags: books, reading

2357 likes

#11

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-reading

8494 likes

#12

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
― Joseph Addison

tags: mind, reading

901 likes

#13

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

127092 likes

#14

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

84293 likes

#15

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
― Joan Crawford

5682 likes

#16

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31525 likes

#17

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

19431 likes

#18

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20722 likes

#19

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

9941 likes

#20

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: writing

3050 likes

#21

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

4557 likes

#22

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
― Anais Nin

tags: writing

1948 likes

#23

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

21195 likes

#24

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

3699 likes

#25

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

3631 likes

#26

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

tags: goals

5354 likes

#27

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135484 likes

#28

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle

tags: education

1190 likes

#29

“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading

3622 likes

#30

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

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