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    Diana Gabaldon
    “I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
    tags: claire-fraser, historical-fiction, romance, scotland, time-travel
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    M. Glenn Taylor
    “When a man accepts that he will no doubt die, he is free to live.”
    ― M. Glenn Taylor, The Marrowbone Marble Company
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    M.J. Croan
    “Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.”
    ― M.J. Croan
    tags: adolescence, growing-up, maturity
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    M.J. Croan
    “Just a thought.
    What sets us above all other life on this planet is our ability to read. What we read can determine our relationship with all other life on this planet.”
    ― M.J. Croan
    tags: literacy
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    M.J. Croan
    “I dislike routine, but I am a creature of habit.”
    ― M.J. Croan
    tags: life
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    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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    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, girls, love
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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Ezra Pound
    “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: books, light, reading
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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Dodie Smith
    “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: baths, deeds, depression
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    Christopher Morley
    “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
    ― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls
    tags: bibliophilia, books
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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
    tags: books
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    Erasmus
    “Your library is your paradise.”
    ― Desiderius Erasmus
    tags: library
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    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
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    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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    Shel Silverstein
    “Do a loony-goony dance
    'Cross the kitchen floor,
    Put something silly in the world
    That ain't been there before.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic
    tags: dance, silly
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    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: love
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    “We are all searching for the fairy tale. When it doesn't come, we try to create it.”
    ― Linda Masemore Pirrung, Explosion in Paris
    tags: romantic-suspense-inspirational
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    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas-fils
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Théophile Gautier
    “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
    ― Théophile Gautier
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, respect
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    Mark Twain
    “Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: age
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Barack Obama
    “A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: activism, commitment, politics
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    Barack Obama
    “You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.”
    ― Barack Obama
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