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    Ezra Pound
    “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: books, light, reading
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, breakfast, carroll
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    A.A. Milne
    “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    ― A.A. Milne
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    Bertolt Brecht
    “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
    tags: book, hunger, weapon
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    Jane Yolen
    “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
    ― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
    tags: childhood, disease, literature
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    Ishmael Reed
    “No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”
    ― Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
    tags: literature, novels, writers, writing
    937 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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    Lois Lowry
    “It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
    ― Lois Lowry
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    Robert J. Sawyer
    “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
    ― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God
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    Diane Setterfield
    “There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
    ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
    tags: books, power-of-words
    1708 likes

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    Alexander Pope
    “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes
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    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
    ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Fall of Atlantis
    tags: despair, hope
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
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    Gail Carriger
    “Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.”
    ― Gail Carriger, Blameless
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    Gail Carriger
    “I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.”
    ― Gail Carriger, Blameless
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    Gail Carriger
    “Really, Channing,” remonstrated Alexia, “did you have to eat the man’s dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.”
    ― Gail Carriger, Blameless
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    Gail Carriger
    “I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.”
    ― Gail Carriger, Blameless
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    Gail Carriger
    “I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."

    (Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)”
    ― Gail Carriger
    tags: addiction, book-lovers, books, survival
    634 likes

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    John Scalzi
    “In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.”
    ― John Scalzi, Redshirts
    tags: humor
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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
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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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
    147968 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    176060 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114167 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135108 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    118752 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81646 likes



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