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    Emily Brontë
    “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #3
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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  • #6
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64646 likes

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  • #7
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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  • #8
    W.G. Sebald
    “It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
    ― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo
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  • #9
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    “One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
    ― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories
    tags: cats
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy
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    Joshua Slocum
    “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
    ― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
    tags: alone, books, friends, solitude
    3498 likes

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  • #12
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13880 likes

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  • #14
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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    Edward Gorey
    “The helpful thought for which you look
    Is written somewhere in a book.”
    ― Edward Gorey
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  • #16
    Beverly Cleary
    “She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.”
    ― Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Pest
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    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    ― François Rabelais
    tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter
    4568 likes

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  • #18
    Émile Zola
    “Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
    ― Emile Zola
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    Amy Sedaris
    “I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”
    ― Amy Sedaris
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    Tennessee Williams
    “I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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    Jonathan Ames
    “I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
    ― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays
    2348 likes

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    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
    tags: inspirational, writing
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    Phyllis McGinley
    “A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
    ― Phyllis McGinley
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  • #24
    Ovid
    “Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
    ― Ovid
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  • #25
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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  • #26
    Khaled Hosseini
    “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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  • #27
    Ralph Ellison
    “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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  • #28
    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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  • #29
    Neil Jordan
    “Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
    ― Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast
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  • #30
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    3453 likes



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