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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: humor, reading
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: courage, reputation
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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    Annie Barrows
    “We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.”
    ― Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: books, books-reading, bookstore, bookstores, buying-books
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: juliet
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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    Annie Barrows
    “If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.”
    ― Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: book-lovers
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: expectation, hope, life
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “After all, tomorrow is another day!”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “My dear, I don't give a damn.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: common-misquote
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

    An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: banter
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: knowledge
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: lie, scarlett, unrequited-love
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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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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    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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  • #19
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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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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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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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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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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    Ben Okri
    “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
    ― Ben Okri
    2415 likes



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