2026 Reading Challenge

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    Sarah Vowell
    “There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.”
    ― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    E.B. White
    “All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
    ― E.B. White
    tags: writing
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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
    ― Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    tags: bravery, fear, perseverence, strength
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  • #6
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
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    Lewis Carroll
    “One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
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    Maya Angelou
    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: inspiration
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  • #10
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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  • #12
    Beatrix Potter
    “I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.”
    ― Beatrix Potter
    tags: heritage, influence, personality
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  • #13
    Toni Morrison
    “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
    tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight
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    Aristotle
    “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: happiness
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    Herman Melville
    “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
    ― Herman Melville
    tags: connection
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    James Baldwin
    “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    George Sand
    “Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
    ― George Sand, Letters of George Sand
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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    Nick Bantock
    “Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows”
    ― Nick Bantock, Griffin & Sabine
    tags: beauty, pain, suffering
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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
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Sophocles
    “One word
    Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
    That word is love.”
    ― Sophocles
    tags: love, pain
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “The beginning is always today.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft
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  • #25
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
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  • #26
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Francis of Assisi
    “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
    ― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
    tags: inspirational
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Deborah Lawrenson
    “I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.”
    ― Deborah Lawrenson, The Lantern
    tags: books-reading
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  • #30
    Henry Adams
    “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
    ― Henry Adams
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