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    Cate Tiernan
    “There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.”
    ― Cate Tiernan
    tags: cate, magic, poetry, romance, tiernan
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
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    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books
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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
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    Philippa Gregory
    “For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.”
    ― Philippa Gregory
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: anna, humor
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
    "Yes," said Harry stiffly.
    "Yes, sir."
    "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
    The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: humor, rebellion, sarcasm
    15172 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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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
    51625 likes

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    George Harrison
    “If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
    ― George Harrison
    tags: life, paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll
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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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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Alison Weir
    “I prefer to be left alone with my books.”
    ― Alison Weir, Innocent Traitor
    tags: book-lover, jane-grey, solitude
    318 likes

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    Bertolt Brecht
    “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
    tags: book, hunger, weapon
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    Voltaire
    “I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Betty MacDonald
    “There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.”
    ― Betty MacDonald, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic
    tags: books, candy, cozy, reading
    164 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Patricia A. McKillip
    “Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
    ― Patricia A. McKillip
    tags: imagination
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    Ralph Ellison
    “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: control, defeat, humanity, life
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    James Bovard
    “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
    ― James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
    tags: democracy, freedom, government, misattributed-ben-franklin, paraphrase-gary-strand
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    Jay Asher
    “You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
    ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    ― Alice Hoffman
    tags: books
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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
    25181 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: books, magic, magic-books
    4498 likes



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