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#1

“Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt

tags: brevity, etiquette, politeness, sincerity

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#2

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#3

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
― Anatole France

tags: books, lending, library

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#4

“My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.”
― Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road

tags: books, library

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#5

“I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

tags: books, death, library

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#6

“...killing rats wasn’t in my job description.”
― Scott Douglas

tags: librarians, library, quiet-please

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#7

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: hope, humanity, library

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#8

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry

3282 likes

#9

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

tags: poetry

3578 likes

#10

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: life, poetry

2050 likes

#11

“You are the music while the music lasts.”
― T.S. Eliot

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#13

“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: evil, good-intentions, morality

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#14

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: editor, writing

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#15

“And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor -
And this, and so much more? -”
― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

tags: poetry, prufrock

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#16

“I can connect
Nothing with nothing”
― T.S. Eliot

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#17

“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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#18

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43921 likes

#19

“If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.”
― Dave Ramsey

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#20

“It was swooping down from Saskatchewan on a northeast track (which made the woman with the lip stud full of shit, it was a nor’easter)”
― Stephen King, If It Bleeds

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#21

“You see where this is going?” Billy does, absolutely. “Not really.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

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#22

“far from the brightest bulb in the chandelier”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

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#23

“He waits. The time passes. It always does.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

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#24

“He thinks writing is also a kind of war, one you fight with yourself. The story is what you carry and every time you add to it, it gets heavier.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

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#25

“The graduates in their heavy robes looked as if the last beads of ignorance were being sweated out of them.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories

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#26

“Mental telepathy, with everybody constantly telling everybody everything, produced a sort of generalized indifference to all information.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style

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#27

“Some readers find the reiteration of “so it goes” irritating.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style

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#28

“it is relatively impervious to that awful, dreadful goblin of a reader, he or she WHO TURNS TO THE LAST THREE PAGES TO SEE HOW IT CAME OUT.”
― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

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#29

“Almost everything, in fact, except a dead rat and a string to swing it on.”
― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

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#30

“because what was hope but belief, no matter how rare the miracle?”
― Ash Davidson, Damnation Spring

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#31

“In most cases the writer does her or his work silently, couching thoughts in symbols composed of letters in groups set off one from the next by white space, and in most cases the reader does her or his work silently, reading the symbols and reintegrating them as thoughts and images.”
― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

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