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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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    Margaret Walker
    “When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
    ― Margaret Walker
    tags: books, inspirational
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    Julia Child
    “I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
    ― Julia Child
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Paulo Coelho
    “No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    Eugene Field
    “No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
    ― Eugene Field
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    Anne Bradstreet
    “Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
    ― Anne Bradstreet
    tags: flattery, praise, words
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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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    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    ― Confucius
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    W.S. Merwin
    “Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
    ― W.S. Merwin
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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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    Albert Camus
    “When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
    ― Albert Camus, A Happy Death
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    Walter Tevis
    “I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
    ― Walter Tevis
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    Guillaume Apollinaire
    “How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
    ― Guillaume Apollinaire
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    William Saroyan
    “When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
    ― William Saroyan
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    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Thomas Wolfe
    “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
    ― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
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    Anne Rice
    “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
    ― Anne Rice
    tags: anne-rice, pandora
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    Chinua Achebe
    “The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
    ― Chinua Achebe
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    Toni Morrison
    “And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
    ― Toni Morrison
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    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: food, love
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    James Dickey
    “A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
    ― James Dickey
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    Ben Okri
    “This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
    ― Ben Okri, The Famished Road
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: spring
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: characters, dreams, touchstones
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
    tags: logic, love
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    Jack Kerouac
    “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
    5678 likes



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