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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
    40996 likes

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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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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93523 likes

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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
    16947 likes

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    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: kindness
    4879 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
    16288 likes

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  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
    34020 likes

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  • #9
    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    ― Niels Bohr
    tags: science
    4211 likes

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    Nancy Thayer
    “It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.”
    ― Nancy Thayer
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
    47069 likes

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  • #12
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
    32977 likes

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  • #13
    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
    5547 likes

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  • #14
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31525 likes

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  • #15
    Thomas A. Edison
    “Five percent of the people think;
    ten percent of the people think they think;
    and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: thinking, willful-ignorance
    1251 likes

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  • #16
    Voltaire
    “Love truth, but pardon error.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: truth
    1424 likes

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  • #17
    Jane Hamilton
    “It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.”
    ― Jane Hamilton
    145 likes

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  • #18
    Gaddy Bergmann
    “Today's stories are tomorrow's legends.”
    ― Gaddy Bergmann
    tags: migration-of-the-kamishi, the-feral-world
    4 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
    8990 likes

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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
    20723 likes

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    Norman Vincent Peale
    “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
    ― Norman Vincent Peale
    tags: inspirational
    2704 likes

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  • #22
    Mary Griffith
    “Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.”
    ― Mary Griffith
    tags: bisexual, equal-rights, gay, lesbian, plfag
    134 likes

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  • #23
    Lisa Scottoline
    “I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you.”
    ― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes
    tags: every-fifteen-minutes, lisa-scottoline
    1015 likes



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