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    “The greatest gift you can bestow upon your children is your time and undivided attention.”
    ― Jim Brozina, The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
    tags: inspirational
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  • #2
    Walter Mosley
    “There was something about his grandfather's death, about men who love their sons . . .”
    ― Walter Mosley, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
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  • #3
    “Questions are more true than answers : this is the beginning of wisdom”
    ― Vergere
    tags: new-jedi-order, star-wars
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    Matthew Woodring Stover
    “The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.”
    ― Matthew Stover
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  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Frank Zappa
    “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: be-yourself, life, self-determination
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    Frank Zappa
    “Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: education, high-school, self-education
    529 likes

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  • #8
    Richard Price
    “Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.”
    ― Richard Price, I Wanderers
    tags: crazy-quotes, gender-identity, violence
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  • #9
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books
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  • #10
    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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    Troy Denning
    “Vergere taught me to embrace my pain by surrendering to it. I made that pain a part of me--something I would never fight or deny. You have to do the same thing with your fear, Uncle Luke. Then it will have no power over you." - Jacen”
    ― Troy Denning, The Swarm War
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  • #12
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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  • #13
    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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  • #14
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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  • #15
    Gloria Steinem
    “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: dreaming, dreams, excitement, imagination, inspirational, planning, possibility
    870 likes

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  • #16
    Ray Charles
    “Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy. ”
    ― Ray Charles
    tags: dreaming, dreams
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  • #17
    Roald Dahl
    “You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck.

    "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
    tags: dreaming, imagination, matilda
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  • #18
    Fernando Pessoa
    “I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: achievements, dreaming, dreamless, dreams, forgetting, sleep, tired
    565 likes

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  • #19
    Akira Kurosawa
    “Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”
    ― Akira Kurosawa
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  • #20
    Stephen King
    “And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: dreaming, imagination, inspirational, true
    213 likes

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  • #21
    “Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.”
    ― W. H. Auden
    tags: ambition, focus, routine
    47 likes



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