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#1

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: loneliness, solitude

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#2

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: literature, reading, solitude

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#3

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: introspection, solitude

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#4

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude

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#5

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

[The Minotaur]”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: introspection, retreat, solitude

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#6

“We are all stories in the end, just make it a good one eh?”
― The Doctor Matt Smith

tags: 11th-doctor, doctor-who, matt-smith

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#7

“Bow ties are cool.”
― Steven Moffat

tags: doctor, doctor-who, fashion, the-doctor

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#8

“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!

(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
― Russell T. Davies

tags: books, doctor-who, knowledge, library, reading, weapons

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#9

“It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.”
― Steven Moffat

tags: doctor-who-the-big-bang

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#10

“You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!”
― Steven Moffat

tags: doctor-who

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#11

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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#12

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

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#13

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints

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#14

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

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#15

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#16

“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

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#17

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

tags: books, christopher-paolini, eragon, good-reads

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#18

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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#19

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#20

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

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#21

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#22

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

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#23

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#24

“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

tags: luck, magic, science

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#25

“Geronimo!”
― Steven Moffat

tags: doctor, doctor-who, the-doctor

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#26

“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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#27

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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#28

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
― Joss Whedon

tags: writing

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#29

“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: writing

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#30

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

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