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  • #1
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    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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  • #3
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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  • #4
    Ruth Rendell
    “Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone
    tags: books, escapism, life, reading
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  • #5
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: on-writing, storytelling
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  • #6
    Neil Gaiman
    “All around me darkness gathers,
    Fading is the sun that shone,
    We must speak of other matters,
    You can be me when I'm gone

    Flowers gathered in the morning,
    Afternoon they blossom on,
    Still are withered in the evening,
    You can be me when I'm gone.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
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  • #7
    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
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  • #8
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin
    tags: art, capitalism, change, literature, power, resistance, writing
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  • #9
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: goals, journey, travel
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  • #10
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “science never cheered up anyone. the human situation is just too awful.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
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  • #11
    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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  • #12
    Jesse Hajicek
    “If I could get hold of something nasty and drop it in the coffee urn, I could poison them all."
    "Too bad your personality's not water-soluble.”
    ― Jesse Hajicek, The God Eaters
    tags: funny, humor
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  • #13
    Jesse Hajicek
    “I want to belong to you, like a name. I want to be a thing people have to know to know you.”
    ― Jesse Hajicek, The God Eaters
    tags: love
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  • #14
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.”
    ― Louisa May Allcott
    tags: inspirational-quotes, marmee
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  • #15
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
    tags: governments, latin, mischief
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  • #16
    Maia Kobabe
    “Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.”
    ― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir
    tags: asexual, gender-queer, lgbtq, maia-kobabe, nonbinary, queer, sexuality, trans, transgender
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  • #17
    Annalee Newitz
    “But now we know there has been no one great disaster—only the slow-motion disaster of capitalism converting every living thing and idea into property.”
    ― Annalee Newitz, Autonomous
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  • #18
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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  • #19
    Eli Brown
    “Some foods are so comforting, so nourishing of body and soul, that to eat them is to be home again after a long journey. To eat such a meal is to remember that, though the world is full of knives and storms, the body is built for kindness. The angels, who know no hunger, have never been as satisfied.”
    ― Eli Brown, Cinnamon and Gunpowder
    tags: comfort-food
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  • #20
    Kai Cheng Thom
    “I wanted to protect you, but I'm starting to think that the best thing you can do for people is teach them how to protect themselves. Every girl needs to be at least a little dangerous.”
    ― Kai Cheng Thom, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
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  • #21
    Terry Pratchett
    “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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  • #22
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “The whole point of growing up is to get big enough to hold the world you want inside you. But it takes a long time, and you really must eat your vegetables, and most often you have to make the world you want out of yourself.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
    tags: growing-up
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  • #23
    “Instructions for living a life.
    Pay attention.
    Be astonished.
    Tell about it.”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: life-lessons
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  • #24
    “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
    ― Mary Oliver
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  • #25
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
    tags: anarchy, crime, laws
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  • #26
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
    tags: death-life-p169
    205 likes

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  • #27
    James Baldwin
    “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: dissent, patriotism, protest
    1103 likes



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