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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
    “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: truth
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    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery
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    Bebe Moore Campbell
    “My color is my joy and not my burden...”
    ― Bebe Moore Campbell, Brothers and Sisters
    tags: race
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
    tags: inspirational
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    Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    “His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.”
    ― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1
    tags: books, bookstores
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    Brian Azzarello
    “Imagination is just what others use to get things they can't understand into their heads. Rarely – if ever – do they actually fit there.
    -Hermes”
    ― Brian Azzarello, Wonder Woman, Volume 1: Blood
    tags: comic, graphic-novel, superhero, wonder-woman
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, children
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    John McWhorter
    “I am not 'African American' —I am black American.”
    ― John McWhorter
    tags: african-american, black-americans
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    Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
    ― Henry Louis Gates Jr
    tags: african-american, american, censorship, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-read, literary
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    George Orwell
    “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
    ― George Orwell
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    N.D. Stevenson
    “Mal, Molly, what in the Joan Jett are you doing?!”
    ― N.D. Stevenson, Lumberjanes: Up All Night
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    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: books, e-readers, kindle, reading
    2711 likes

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    August Wilson
    “In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
    ― August Wilson, Gem of the Ocean
    tags: blindness
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    August Wilson
    “Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.”
    ― August Wilson
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    Adeline Yen Mah
    “Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
    ― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
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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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    Laini Taylor
    “Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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    Dan Brown
    “The chalice,” he said, “resembles a cup or vessel, and more important, it resembles the shape of a woman’s womb. This symbol communicates femininity, womanhood, and fertility.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
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    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    “What is history but a fable agreed upon?”
    ― Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
    tags: misattributed-napoleon-bonaparte
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Langston Hughes
    “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
    ― Langston Hughes
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    Langston Hughes
    “Life is for the living.
    Death is for the dead.
    Let life be like music.
    And death a note unsaid.”
    ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
    tags: death, life, music
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    Barbara Neely
    “Southern law enforcement people were even worse: the descendants of the paddyrollers and overseers who’d made their living grinding her kind into fertilizer in the cotton fields of slavery.”
    ― Barbara Neely, Blanche on the Lam
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    Barbara Neely
    “The story might sound like common gossip when told by another person, but in the mouth of a storyteller, gossip was art.”
    ― Barbara Neely, Blanche on the Lam
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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    Barbara Neely
    “The longer I live, the more boring youth becomes. So redundant. Each generation rediscovers the wheel of rebellion, the wheel of love, and so forth and so on. We hardly know which end is up until we’re in our thirties.”
    ― Barbara Neely, Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
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