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    John Green
    “Have you really read all those books in your room?”

    Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “You’ve read the books?”
    “I’ve seen the movies.”
    Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.”
    “I’m not really a book person.”
    “That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
    tags: booklovers, reading
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    Daniel Pennac
    “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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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    Alan Paton
    “Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
    ― Alan Paton
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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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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    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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    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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    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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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
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    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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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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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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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― 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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    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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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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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
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    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: books, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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    Stephen King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Mary Leakey
    “Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
    ― Mary Leakey
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    Junot Díaz
    “And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
    ― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her
    tags: breaking-up
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