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    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
    Go throw your TV set away,
    And in its place you can install
    A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
    Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    tags: books, humor, television
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: wallflower
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    Chris Colfer
    “Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!”
    ― Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell
    tags: books, fantasy, hope, inspirational, self-help
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  • #4
    “Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.”
    ― Ellen Rose
    tags: books, food
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    Karl Lagerfeld
    “For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.”
    ― Karl Lagerfeld
    tags: books, reading, time
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    Nick Hornby
    “You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.”
    ― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
    tags: books
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    “I do not mind sleepless night to be involved in reading.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
    tags: books, desires, discover, education, inspirational, lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations, learning, mindset, passion, pursuit-of-knowledge, read, self-discovery, self-education, self-exploration, strength-of-spirit, willpower, wise-words, write
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  • #8
    “What we need is more books to read.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
    tags: books, choices, decisions, desire, desires, education, lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations, learner, learning, lifelong-education, personal-development, positive-thinking, read, reading, self-education, self-realization, wants, wise-words
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  • #9
    “Books always attract my attention.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
    tags: books, education, inspirational, lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations, life, lifelong-learner, read
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  • #10
    “Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
    tags: books, college, darkness, education, enlightenment, ignorance, inspiring, knowledge, lifelong-learner, light, path, read, reading, school, self-determination, self-esteem, self-improvement, strength-and-courage, university
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  • #11
    “We exist in the world of books.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
    tags: book-lovers, book-shelf, books, education, inspirational, lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations, library, life, read, solitude
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  • #12
    “The more we read, the more we discover.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
    tags: books, education, inspiration, lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations, learm, learner, lifelong-advice, read, self-discovery, self-study, wise-words
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  • #13
    “How could we have improved ourselves, if we had not dared to read, learn and write?”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
    tags: books, college, courage, daring, determination, dream, education, education-system, encouragement, informal-and-formal-education, inspiring, learn, learning, lifelong, motivation, positive-thinking, read, self-education, self-improvement, wisdom, write
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    Roald Dahl
    “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
    ― Roald Dahl, Matilda
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    “We have to get used to the idea that no one cares as much as us, because guess what, they don’t. Succeed, fail, whatever, no one is going to give you a pat on the back for spending all hours of the day studying, or researching, or giving up everything to write. So we’ve got to just do it for ourselves.”
    ― Lara Avery, The Memory Book
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  • #16
    “Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
    ― Colm Tóibín
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
    tags: books, dedications
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
    tags: book-lover
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: reading
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    tags: book-lovers, books, choose, people
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, literature
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    Virginia Woolf
    “She read everything.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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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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