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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
    tags: grudges
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    Jack Kerouac
    “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
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    Raymond Carver
    “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
    ― Raymond Carver
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    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading
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    Molière
    “It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”
    ― Molière
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    Harper Lee
    “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, people, scout
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    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: philosophy, science
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    Tom Clancy
    “The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
    ― Tom Clancy
    tags: read
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    Ralph Ellison
    “The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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    Harper Lee
    “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: writing-advice
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books-reading
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    Bill Watterson
    “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
    ― Bill Watterson
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Ntozake Shange
    “Where there is a woman there is magic.”
    ― Ntozake Shange
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    “Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
    ― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
    tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, home, homecoming, homelessness, roots
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    Kate Mosse
    “We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
    ― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts
    tags: love
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    Deepak Chopra
    “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
    ― Deepak Chopra
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    Andrew Solomon
    “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
    ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
    tags: conversation, depression, fear, life, speaking, words
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    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist
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    Edna O'Brien
    “In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
    ― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
    tags: comment, depth, emotion, inadequacy
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
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    James Burke
    “When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
    ― James Burke
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    Donna Tartt
    “I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
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    Susan Sontag
    “I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books
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    Nicholson Baker
    “Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
    ― Nicholson Baker
    tags: books, inventions
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    Tami Hoag
    “We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
    ― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse
    tags: inspirational
    2080 likes



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