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    “This life is more than just a read-through.”
    ― Red Hot Chili Peppers, Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
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    “Oh if life were made of moments
    Even now and then a bad one--!
    But if life were only moments,
    Then you'd never know you had one.”
    ― Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods
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  • #3
    “Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
    He liked her a lot.
    He liked her cute figure,
    he thought she was hot.

    But could a flame ever burn
    for a match and a stick?
    It did quite literally;
    he burned up quick.”
    ― Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
    tags: absurd
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  • #4
    William Shakespeare
    “The weight of this sad time we must obey,
    Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
    The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
    Shall never see so much, nor live so long.”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
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  • #5
    Archibald MacLeish
    “A poem should not mean
    But be.”
    ― Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems, 1917-1982
    tags: poetry
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  • #6
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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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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  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: cynic
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  • #10
    Markus Zusak
    “A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
    IN THE DICTIONARY
    Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
    often deciphered by children”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: children, love
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  • #11
    Markus Zusak
    “I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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  • #12
    Neal Shusterman
    “It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Everwild
    tags: alone, house, mcgill, mikey
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    John Green
    “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: johngreen, lookingforalaska
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  • #14
    Natalie Babbitt
    “Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
    ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
    tags: life
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    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
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  • #16
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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  • #17
    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
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  • #18
    Katherine Applegate
    “Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered.”
    ― Katherine Alice Applegate, The Beginning
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  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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  • #20
    Patrick Ness
    “We are the choices we make.”
    ― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go
    tags: the-knife-of-never-letting-go
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    Patrick Ness
    “In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.”
    ― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer
    tags: emotion
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  • #22
    Charles Dickens
    “And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!”
    ― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
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  • #23
    William Shakespeare
    “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: dreams, imagination, psychology
    1289 likes

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  • #24
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60356 likes

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  • #26
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
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  • #27
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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  • #28
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
    tags: blue, feelings, gansey, kiss, love
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  • #29
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
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  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
    25311 likes

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  • #31
    Amos Oz
    “Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”
    ― Amos Oz
    1231 likes



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