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#1

“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

#2

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

16632 likes

#3

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

35682 likes

#4

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119244 likes

#5

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

4220 likes

#6

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

9534 likes

#7

“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

4568 likes

#8

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: opportunity

2258 likes

#9

“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction

tags: happiness

591 likes

#10

“Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.”
― ernest hemingway, To Have and Have Not

212 likes

#11

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: laziness, opportunity, work

1278 likes

#12

“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ”
― Boris Vian

tags: jazz, love, music, new-orleans

159 likes

#13

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

2931 likes

#14

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: books, e-readers, kindle, reading

2712 likes

#15

“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: coffee, compliments, little-women, louisa-may-alcott

1611 likes

#16

“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: books, george-r-r-martin

1534 likes

#17

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
― C.S. Lewis

458 likes

#18

“I dwell in possibility…”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: possibility

1085 likes

#19

“but anything overtly religious filled him with a pagan alarm; and I believe that like Pliny, whom he resembled in so many respects, he secretly thought it to be a degenerate cult carried to extravagant lengths.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#20

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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