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#1

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

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#2

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

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#3

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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#4

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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#5

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

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#6

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

tags: hope, love

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#7

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

tags: inspirational

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#8

“If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips

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#9

“Books fall open, you fall in.”
― David T.W. McCord

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#10

“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”
― Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

tags: filters

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#11

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

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#12

“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
― Yves Saint Laurent

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#13

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

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#14

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

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#15

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

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#16

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

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#17

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: benediction

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#18

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
― E. Nesbit, The Magic World

tags: eat, eating, humor, luxury, reading

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#19

“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

tags: desires, promises

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#20

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

tags: anonymity, blending-in

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#21

“Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.”
― Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed

tags: simile

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#22

“MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.”
― Patricia Briggs, Moon Called

tags: grave-offenses, humor

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#23

“I don't like it when I outweigh my men.”
― Patricia Briggs, Moon Called

tags: humor, love, women

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#24

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

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#25

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

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#27

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

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#28

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

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#29

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

tags: anne-rice, pandora

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#30

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

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#31

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

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