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“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
― John Green

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
― J.K. Rowling

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
― Terry Johnson, Insignificance

“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
― Tracy Chevalier

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart