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    J.D. Salinger
    “If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    John Green
    “When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    Ezra Pound
    “No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: reading
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  • #5
    Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!
    “Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!”
    ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
    tags: where-the-wild-things-are
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: importance, kiss, kissing
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    Tiffanie DeBartolo
    “We’re all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself. I could go on and on. I used to know a girl who used shoes. She had over two-hundred pairs. But it’s all the same thing, really. People, for some stupid reason, think they can escape their sorrows.”
    ― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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  • #9
    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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  • #10
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “God has no religion.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, religion
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    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: books, reading
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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  • #13
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: infinity
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    Ezra Pound
    “And the days are not full enough
    And the nights are not full enough
    And life slips by like a field mouse
    Not shaking the grass”
    ― Ezra Pound
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  • #16
    Maurice Sendak
    “And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!”
    ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
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  • #17
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    “I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.”
    ― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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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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    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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    George Carlin
    “Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: evangelism, freedom-of-religion, religion, tolerance
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    Ann Richards
    “After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
    ― Ann Richards
    tags: dance, dancing, politics, texas, women
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor, politics
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  • #23
    Tiffanie DeBartolo
    “Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.”
    ― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole
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    Tiffanie DeBartolo
    “Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.”
    ― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole
    tags: love
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  • #25
    Tiffanie DeBartolo
    “We had pathetically simple dreams:
    to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.”
    ― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
    tags: books, humor, reading
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  • #27
    Émile Zola
    “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, calling, life
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    André Breton
    “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
    ― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
    tags: love, madness
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  • #29
    David Foster Wallace
    “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: books, infinite-jest
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  • #30
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
    37984 likes



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