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    William Shakespeare
    “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: inspirational
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    Daphne du Maurier
    “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
    ― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
    tags: dream, first-sentence
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    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    ― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    tags: life
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    Tennessee Williams
    “For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .”
    ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
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    Tennessee Williams
    “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
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    Tennessee Williams
    “All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”
    ― Tennessee Williams
    tags: cruelty, honesty
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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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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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #15
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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    John Lennon
    “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, men, women
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
    tags: grudges
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    John Lennon
    “One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, emotions, hypocrisy, pain, suffering
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    John Lennon
    “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Stephen King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Stephen King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: the-hunger-games
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    Melissa Marr
    “Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
    ― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
    tags: love
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    “Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!”
    ― Charles Ogden
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: librarians, libraries
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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  • #31
    William Shakespeare
    “Me, poor man, my library
    Was dukedom large enough.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: books, library, literature, reading, words
    403 likes



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