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#1

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

#2

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88103 likes

#3

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

81812 likes

#4

“do it from the heart or not at all.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

243 likes

#5

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

26989 likes

#6

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135497 likes

#7

“For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.”
― Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage

tags: religion-literature

83 likes

#8

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

3227 likes

#9

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151376 likes

#10

“Trust me, I'm telling you stories.”
― Jeanette Winterson

104 likes

#11

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age

8464 likes

#12

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit

3337 likes

#13

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

2799 likes

#14

“Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: reading

288 likes

#15

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

962 likes

#16

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

tags: age-adult

2583 likes

#17

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

4942 likes

#18

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
― Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare

tags: music

3552 likes

#19

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

tags: indulgence, virtue

1905 likes

#20

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: books, reading, right-moment, timing

875 likes

#21

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

tags: books

3159 likes

#22

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

tags: love, weirdness

21583 likes

#23

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
― Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

tags: fear, heart, love, regret

2259 likes

#24

“I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

228 likes

#25

“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts

2529 likes

#26

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

6852 likes

#27

“We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

288 likes

#28

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

3024 likes

#29

“Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?”
― Sarah Waters, Affinity

tags: men, voices, women

55 likes

#30

“The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

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