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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
    (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Kathleen Winsor
    “Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
    ― Kathleen Winsor
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
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    Random House
    “A library is a hospital for the mind.”
    ― Random House
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: autumn, fall, solitude
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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: grinning, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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    George Eliot
    “Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
    ― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
    tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence
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    Anne Lamott
    “Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
    tags: humor, inspirational, writing
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    Dorothy Parker
    “You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
    tags: horticulture, puns
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    Alexander Woollcott
    “All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening”
    ― Alexander Woollcott
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    Demetri Martin
    “I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.”
    ― Demetri Martin
    tags: comedians, demetri-martin, funny, games, helping-others, humor, shot, video-games
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    Alexander Woollcott
    “Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.”
    ― Alexander Woollcott
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: on-quotes, quote
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    Christopher Morley
    “That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.”
    ― Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop
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    Elizabeth Hardwick
    “The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
    It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
    it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
    It is a moral illumination.”
    ― Elizabeth Hardwick
    tags: books, reading
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: books
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    Tim Winton
    “And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.”
    ― Tim Winton, Cloudstreet
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    A. Edward Newton
    “Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity... We cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access reassurance.”
    ― A. Edward Newton, The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections
    tags: abibliophobia, books, reading, tsundoku
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    John Adams
    “I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”
    ― John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
    tags: education, lifelong-learning, reading
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: books, illiteracy, literature, pity, reading, words
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    Nora Ephron
    “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: reading
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    B.J. Neblett
    “A love letter lost in the mail, forgotten, miss delivered and then discovered years later and received by the intended is romantic. A love letter ending up in someone's spam filter is just annoying.”
    ― B.J. Neblett
    tags: annoying, bj-neblett, discovered, forgotten, letters, lost, love, mail, romance, spam
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    Tom Clancy
    “The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
    ― Tom Clancy
    tags: read
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books
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    Kate Morton
    “After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.”
    ― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
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