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#1

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

#2

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

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#3

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

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#4

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

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#5

“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

tags: love

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#6

“I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”
― Lee Child, 61 Hours

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#7

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#8

“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

tags: heaven, love

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#9

“It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.”
― Sheila Hancock

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#10

“There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph

tags: life-questions

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#11

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

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#12

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme

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#13

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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#14

“Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
― Emily Murphy

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#15

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
― Ben Okri

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#16

“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

tags: life

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#17

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

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#18

“Deserve your dream.”
― octavio paz

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#19

“If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.”
― Iris Johansen, Countdown

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#20

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, whiskey

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#21

“I've never wanted a quiet life.”
― Lydia Cacho

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#22

“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel

tags: happiness, life

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#23

“He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

tags: boy, cool, girl, successful, try

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#24

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
― Kathy Acker

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#25

“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

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#26

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald

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#27

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

tags: books, literature, reading, words

3793 likes

#28

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

tags: interests, personality, values

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#29

“I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

tags: mysterious

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#30

“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: belief, change, faith, life, magic, universe

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