2026 Reading Challenge

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    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
    ― Mario Vargas Llosa
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    Aphra Behn
    “That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
    ― Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance
    tags: library, reading
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: motivational
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: gratitude, happiness
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  • #8
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: books, 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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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
    9135 likes

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  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    Anne Rice
    “Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
    ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
    tags: good-evil
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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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
    31226 likes

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    Jasper Fforde
    “After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots
    tags: reading
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  • #18
    Jack London
    “Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
    ― Jack London
    tags: club, inspiration
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    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: books, life
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    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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    Ezra Pound
    “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: books, light, reading
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
    5986 likes

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  • #23
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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  • #24
    Thomas Merton
    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
    ― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
    tags: art
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    Andy Warhol
    “Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
    ― Andy Warhol
    tags: criticism
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    Samuel Lover
    “Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
    ― Samuel Lover, Rory O'More
    tags: motivational
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    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
    ― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
    tags: sun-drenched, travel
    1735 likes

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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
    Amy Tan
    “We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
    tags: dream, fate, hope
    2585 likes

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  • #30
    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
    4326 likes



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