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    Gary D. Schmidt
    “The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.”
    ― Gary D. Schmidt, Trouble
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    M.T. Anderson
    “At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.”
    ― M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party
    tags: octavian-nothing
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    M.T. Anderson
    “Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken”
    ― M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party
    tags: truth-telling
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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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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    Annie Dillard
    “Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.”
    ― Annie Dillard
    tags: books, reading
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: wish
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert
    tags: god, religion
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert
    tags: self-worth
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: humor
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    Kabir
    “All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”
    ― Kabir
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    “Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.”
    ― Rachel Cohn, You Know Where to Find Me
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    Gary D. Schmidt
    “No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.”
    ― Gary D. Schmidt, Trouble
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130284 likes

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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Gary D. Schmidt
    “The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and more wonderful in all its evolved forms than two souls who look at each other straight on. And there is nothing more woeful and soul-saddening than when they are parted...everything in the world rejoices in the touch, and everything in the world laments in the losing.”
    ― Gary D. Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
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    Scott Douglas
    “The library—the place in my life that was full of books—beagan to teach me that books weren't everything.”
    ― Scott Douglas, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
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    Bob Graham
    “A loose feather can't be put back...but a broken wing can sometimes heal.”
    ― bob graham
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    F.E. Higgins
    “What is life if not a gamble?”
    ― F.E. Higgins, The Black Book of Secrets
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    Charles Dickens
    “‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
    tags: love, passion
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    Gary D. Schmidt
    “Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.”
    ― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now
    tags: librarians
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    Louise Bogan
    “O remember
    In your narrowing dark hours
    That more things move
    Than blood in the heart.”
    ― Louise Bogan
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60303 likes

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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
    45229 likes



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