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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.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
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    Andre Dubus III
    “The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
    ― Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog
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    “Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
    ― Sara Henderson
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    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    Nora Roberts
    “Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
    ― Nora Roberts, Vision in White
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    R. David Lankes
    “To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.”
    ― R. David Lankes
    tags: change, community, librarians, libraries
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “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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    E.Y. Harburg
    “Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”
    ― Yip Harburg
    tags: music, singing, songs, thinking
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    Guy Gavriel Kay
    “There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
    ― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
    tags: destiny, path
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    Neil Gaiman
    “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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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: perspective, positive-attitude
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading
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    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist
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    Philippe Ariès
    “A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
    ― Philippe Ariès
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
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    James Burke
    “When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
    ― James Burke
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    Nicholson Baker
    “Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
    ― Nicholson Baker
    tags: books, inventions
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    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
    tags: education, experience, wisdom
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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
    ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    tags: dream
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    Vicki Baum
    “There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
    ― Vicki Baum, Ballerina
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    Mo Yan
    “Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
    ― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum
    tags: existence
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    Chelsea Handler
    “Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
    ― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me
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    Katherine Mansfield
    “Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”
    ― Katherine Mansfield
    tags: eyes, happiness, happy-people, holding-hands, love, short-story, smiling
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    John Updike
    “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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    Giacomo Casanova
    “Be the flame, not the moth.”
    ― Giacomo Casanova
    tags: passion, self-destruction
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    Cynthia Ozick
    “What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
    ― Cynthia Ozick
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    Kathy Acker
    “If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
    ― Kathy Acker
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    Hervé Le Tellier
    “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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