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    David Foster Wallace
    “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: books, infinite-jest
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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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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    Flannery O'Connor
    “I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
    tags: humor, wit
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    James Branch Cabell
    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    ― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion
    tags: optimism, pessimism
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    Nick Hornby
    “The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
    ― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good
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    Richard Hughes
    “Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
    ― Richard Hughes
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    J.M. Barrie
    “I'm not young enough to know everything.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton
    tags: wisdom
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  • #9
    Coco Chanel
    “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: dresses, fashion, women
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    Amy Sedaris
    “I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge
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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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    Saul Bellow
    “Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
    ― Saul Bellow, Herzog
    tags: life
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    Gary Paulsen
    “I read like a wolf eats.
    I read myself to sleep every night.”
    ― Gary Paulsen
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
    tags: intelligence, mind, poverty
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    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Logan Pearsall Smith
    tags: life, reading
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    Peter De Vries
    “Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.”
    ― Peter De Vries
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Do a loony-goony dance
    'Cross the kitchen floor,
    Put something silly in the world
    That ain't been there before.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic
    tags: dance, silly
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    Gore Vidal
    “The unfed mind devours itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains
    tags: common-sense, wisdom
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    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: thinking
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    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: inspirational, wonder
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  • #24
    “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
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    Susan Sontag
    “My library is an archive of longings.”
    ― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
    tags: books, library, longing
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    Charles Dickens
    “No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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    Gertrude Stein
    “We are always the same age inside. ”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: self-confidence
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
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  • #30
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    5101 likes



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