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    Suzanne Collins
    “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: the-hunger-games
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Helen Fielding
    “It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
    ― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
    tags: heathcliff, humour, mr-darcy, snooty, wuthering-heights
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: dream, imagination, reality, war
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    Jess Rothenberg
    “There’s no such thing as too much Disney.”
    ― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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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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    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Logan Pearsall Smith
    tags: life, reading
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, books, re-reading, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
    tags: hell, love, safe
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can make anything by writing.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: writing
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder
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    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: philosophy
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    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome
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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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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “Love is the only prayer I know.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
    tags: love, prayer
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Anthony Ryan
    “A fool is any man who doesn’t think he’s a fool.”
    ― Anthony Ryan, Blood Song
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “Once upon a time,” she said to him, to the world, to herself, “in a land long since burned to ash, there lived a young princess who loved her kingdom . . . very much.”

    And then she told him of the princess whose heart had burned with wildfire, of the mighty kingdom in the north, of its downfall and of the sacrifice of Lady Marion. It was a long story, and sometimes she grew quiet and cried—-and during those times he leaned over to wipe away her tears.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177326 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
    51624 likes



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