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    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    ― Daniel Pennac
    tags: books, reading, rights
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: leigh-bardugo, six-of-crows
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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    Ezra Pound
    “There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: books
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-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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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: capital-punishment, death-penalty, gandalf, j-r-r-tolkien, lord-of-the-rings
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “She held each sorrow like a chafing grain and grew her grudges like pearls.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
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    Stephen King
    “Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.”
    ― Stephen King, It
    tags: democracy, humor, it, stephen-king
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “It's not natural for women to fight."
    "It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
    "Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
    "Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
    "Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
    "You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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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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    Dashiell Hammett
    “Who shot him? I asked.
    The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”
    ― Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest
    tags: stating-the-obvious
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    Dashiell Hammett
    “The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”
    ― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
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    Lemony Snicket
    “It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
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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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    Stephen King
    “Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: children
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    Arthur Miller
    “Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
    ― Arthur Miller
    tags: betrayal, friendship, reality
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    Arthur Miller
    “The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.”
    ― Arthur Miller
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    Arthur Miller
    “You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.”
    ― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman: Text and Criticism
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    Arthur Miller
    “A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.”
    ― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman: Text and Criticism
    tags: men
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    Arthur Miller
    “A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”
    ― Arthur Miller, The Crucible
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    Siddhartha Mukherjee
    “Normalcy is the antithesis of evolution.”
    ― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History
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    “Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
    ― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein
    tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words
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    Elmore Leonard
    “"Wonderful things can happen", Vincent said, "when you plant seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes."”
    ― Elmore Leonard, Glitz
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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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    Vincent van Gogh
    “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: loneliness, passion
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    Pierce Brown
    “There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Golden Son
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