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    Georgette Heyer
    “As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
    ― Georgette Heyer, Venetia
    tags: desires, promises
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    Mary Higgins Clark
    “When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
    ― Mary Higgins Clark
    tags: on-writing, revenge, storytelling
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Jack London
    “The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
    ― Jack London, White Fang
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
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    “Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
    ― Sara Henderson
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    Robert Jordan
    “Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
    ― Robert Jordan
    tags: hidden-riches
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    Jo Walton
    “It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
    ― Jo Walton, Among Others
    tags: books
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    Edna O'Brien
    “In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
    ― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
    tags: comment, depth, emotion, inadequacy
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    Anzia Yezierska
    “When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
    ― Anzia Yezierska
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
    tags: love
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    Earl Lovelace
    “I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.”
    ― Earl Lovelace
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    Günter Grass
    “Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”
    ― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum
    tags: books, literature, quality, sacredness
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    Carl Sagan
    “Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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    Jean Fritz
    “When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”
    ― Jean Fritz
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    Irwin Shaw
    “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
    ― Irwin Shaw
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    Steven Moffat
    “Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.'
    The Doctor: 'Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. [He Smiles] I am definitely a madman with a box.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: amy-pond, doctor, doctor-who, the-doctor, the-doctor-and-amy
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Janet Evanovich
    “Why do you give me cars?"
    "It's fun," Ranger said."And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?"
    "You love me?"
    "Yes."
    A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?"
    "In a very large way," Ranger said.”
    ― Janet Evanovich, Sizzling Sixteen
    tags: ranger, sizzling-sixteen, stephanie-plum
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    Michael Moorcock
    “I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.”
    ― Michael Moorcock, Elric: The Stealer of Souls
    tags: best-sellers, fantasy-genre, ideas, inspiration, popularity, self-deprication
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    Michael Moorcock
    “What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.”
    ― Michael Moorcock
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