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#1

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: books, reading

#2

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

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#3

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

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#4

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

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#5

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

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#6

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

tags: conversation

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#7

“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”
― Billy Collins

tags: poetry

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#8

“I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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#9

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#10

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

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#11

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

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#12

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

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#13

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

tags: humor, sadness

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#14

“A great nose may be an index
Of a great soul”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

tags: classics, humor

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#15

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

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#16

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

tags: arts, life, music, poetry

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#17

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

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#18

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari

tags: literature

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#19

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: life, unfairness

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#20

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#21

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

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#22

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

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#23

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

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#24

“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
― Henry James

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#25

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

tags: books, literature, reading

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#26

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

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#27