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#1

“When in doubt, shoot the wizard.”
― Tamora Pierce

#2

“He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

tags: humor, stupidity

172 likes

#3

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92210 likes

#4

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

tags: love, simile

22944 likes

#5

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

1822 likes

#6

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

tags: happiness

2530 likes

#7

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

tags: books, imagination, writing

2609 likes

#8

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

5603 likes

#9

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

tags: future, grammar, language, past

2868 likes

#10

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: books, reading

3773 likes

#11

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading, writing

3263 likes

#12

“What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

1310 likes

#13

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

2590 likes

#14

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: eating-reading

8611 likes

#15

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

tags: music, power-of-music

2848 likes

#16

“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
― Edna O'Brien, In the Forest

tags: philosophical, spiritual

1390 likes

#17

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

2763 likes

#19

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

8116 likes

#20

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

1184 likes

#21

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

2644 likes

#22

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

5011 likes

#23

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

3934 likes

#24

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: inspirational, science

3950 likes

#25

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton

1783 likes

#26

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

tags: expectation

6486 likes

#27

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

tags: inspirational, patience

2687 likes

#28

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: attention, eagerness

1550 likes

#29

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism

2542 likes

#30

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

tags: love

1956 likes

#31

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: funny

6894 likes

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