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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Malcolm X
    “My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: books, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
    tags: books, library, literature, reading, words
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: books, garden, reading
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    Books. Cats. Life is Good.
    “Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
    ― Edward Gorey
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, imperfections
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    Ray Bradbury
    “How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: emptiness, people, present
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    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    ― Daphne du Maurier
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: death, sleep
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: adversity, contrast
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    Edward Gorey
    “The Baron told her that only art meant anything.”
    ― Edward Gorey, The Gilded Bat
    tags: art
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    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    ― Agatha Christie
    tags: inspirational
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    Patrick Ness
    “There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him.

    And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?"    ”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Stephen King
    “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: horror
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    Stephen King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Roald Dahl
    “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.”
    ― Roald Dahl
    tags: books, kids, readers, reading
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    Epicurus
    “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
    Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
    Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
    Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: atheism, religion
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    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    ― Robert Bloch
    tags: horror, inspirational, misattributed-to-stephen-king
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    Charles Dickens
    “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: march, summer, sun, wind, winter
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    Stephen King
    “we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.”
    ― Stephen King, Danse Macabre
    tags: ghost-stories, stephen-king
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: darkness
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  • #30
    “It is both a blessing
    And a curse
    To feel everything
    So very deeply.”
    ― David Jones
    360 likes



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