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    Anatole France
    “Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: books, lending, library
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    E.M. Forster
    “... there are shadows because there are hills.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
    tags: life, shadow
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    Tom Clancy
    “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
    ― Tom Clancy
    tags: life
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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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    Elle Newmark
    “I realized that cats make a perfect audience, they don't laugh at you, they never contradict you, there's no need to impress them, and they won't divulge your secrets.”
    ― Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief
    tags: cats, elle-newmark, luciano
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Dorothy Parker
    “This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."

    [Women Know Everything!]”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: bad-reviews, fancy, raisins, terrible, wordplay
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “I didn’t like dogs. Not because they scared me—they didn’t—but because their deaths were so much harder to take than people’s.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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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
    45248 likes

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  • #16
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Happiness is a warm puppy.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
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    George Washington
    “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: confession, excuses, honesty, lies, lying, truth
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    Ransom Riggs
    “We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
    tags: reading, survival
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: humor, insanity
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    Marissa Meyer
    “Ze'ev failed to mention he was in love with you." Scarlet could feel her cheeks turning as red as her hair.
    Thorne muttered, "How could you not tell?" Cinder kicked him.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Winter
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
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    Marissa Meyer
    “A relieved grin filled up Thorne’s face. “We’re having another moment, aren’t we?”

    “If by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, then I guess we are.”
    ― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet
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    Neil Gaiman
    “A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

    (As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: books, dreams
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    Jean Cocteau
    “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
    ― Jean Cocteau
    tags: cats, home
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    Alan Bradley
    “As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

    No ... eight days a week.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
    tags: book-lover
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  • #29
    J.D. Robb
    “And personally, I don’t get murder. Why kill people when you can just ignore them?”
    ― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death
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  • #30
    J.D. Robb
    “Why would I kill someone I don’t know, when I know so many people who irritate me, and haven’t killed any of them?”
    ― J.D. Robb, Portrait in Death
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