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#1

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

tags: books, reading, rights

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#2

“This is a completely heterosexual bro-hug that I offer in a totally nongay way to all my hockey brothers.”
― Isa K., How To Quit Playing Hockey

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#3

“Oh, and they said I have ADD, too." He lit a cigarette, his first of the day, and took a long, grateful drag. "But listen mate, I once sucked a geezer for twenty minutes to get him off. The clock was just over his shoulder and I timed it. Attention deficit?" He blew out a plume of smoke. "I don't think so.”
― S.A. Reid, Something Different

tags: add, adhd, attention-deficit-disorder, gay, m-m-romance

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#4

“If you’re gay how come you don’t dress better?”
. . .
“I’m undercover,” he answered. "Obviously. I’m reporting back tonight on how best to attack the heterosexual hockey male demographic.”
― Isa K., How To Quit Playing Hockey

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#5

“What the fuck, what the fucking, bloody devil-shit, what in the name of Satan's swollen cock was that?”
― K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord

tags: omgomgomgomgomg

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#6

“I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?”
― Margaret Cho

tags: bisexuality, cho, gay, minority-groups, parade, pride, promiscuity, sexuality, tramp

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#7

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

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#8

“Having sex with friends seems like a very good idea until suddenly it doesn't.”
― Marshall Thornton, Bloodlines

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#9

“Like fine wine, I do not travel well. Sure, when I was young, fresh, low in acidity and not so tannic, I was a more adventurous spririt.”
― Josh Lanyon, All She Wrote

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#10

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

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#11

“No' seems such a flimsy and inadequate little word to express how very little interest I have in hearing you rambling on about that particular topic.”
― FayJay, The Student Prince

tags: hilarious, stealing-for-usage

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#12

“Its like Mrs Fitzherbert all over again, or that bloody Simpson woman! I do not believe it!"
"Sorry," said Merlin, wondering who the blazes Mrs Fitzherbert and that bloody Simpson woman
were. He had a feeling Gaius didn't mean Marge.”
― FayJay, The Student Prince

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#13

“For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.”
― Philip K. Dick

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#14

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

tags: reading, words, writing

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#15

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

tags: nancy-drew

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#16

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

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#17

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

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#18

“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
― George Gissing

tags: books, literature, nose, reading

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#19

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#20

“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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#21

“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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#22

“Me: fine. u ever want 2 sleep w/someone u really dont like? Everett: you mean like a republican?”
― Avon Gale, Let the Wrong Light In

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#23

“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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#24

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

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#25

“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson

tags: freedom, inspiration, poetry

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#26

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: writing, writing-process

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#27

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8

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#28

“You must remember, mijo, even people who were once your sails can become your anchors.”
― Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming

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