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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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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    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
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    Mae West
    “It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: life, men
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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
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: emphasis, exclamation-points, style, writing
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Life itself is a quotation.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
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    Christopher Moore
    “Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”
    ― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job
    tags: parents
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    Russell Brand
    “I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!”
    ― Russell Brand
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    Ruth Rendell
    “Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone
    tags: books, escapism, life, reading
    247 likes

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    Tasha Alexander
    “Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.”
    ― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
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    Jonathan Carroll
    “I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.”
    ― Jonathan Carroll, Bones of the Moon
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    Jonathan Carroll
    “People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.”
    ― Jonathan Carroll
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
    tags: books, obsession
    2338 likes

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    Lewis Carroll
    “One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
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    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
    tags: love
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
    tags: happiness, love
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    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: books, feminist, reading
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    Shelby Foote
    “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
    ― Shelby Foote
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    Marjane Satrapi
    “To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.”
    ― Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries
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    Suzanne Collins
    “I'm running on hate. When the energy from that ebbs I'll be worthless.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
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    Jules Verne
    “We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
    ― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
    tags: books, reading
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: adolf-hitler, electoral-politics, george-w-bush, humor, politics
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: cheese, poetry
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    Gore Vidal
    “The unfed mind devours itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Craig Ferguson
    “He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He marveled at the gullibility and vulnerability of his fellow humans. No wonder the churches called them sheep. They were woolly-headed pack animals being herded around for the benefit of whoever knew how to control the dogs.”
    ― Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River
    tags: church, gullibility, humanity, power, religion, sheep
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    Alan Bennett
    “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
    tags: books
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    Alan Bennett
    “A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot."

    [Baffled at a Bookcase (London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]”
    ― Alan Bennett
    tags: book-owner, bookshelves
    127 likes



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