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#1

“I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.”
― Tana French, In the Woods

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“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#3

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

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#4

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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#5

“How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

tags: death, jofer

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#6

“Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

tags: attractiveness, human-behaviour, money, partners, psychology, relationship

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#7

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: humor, laughter

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#8

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.”
― Horace Walpole

tags: humour, imagination

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#9

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole

tags: comedy, emotions, life, perspective, thinking, tragedy

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#10

“Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.”
― Horace Walpole

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#11

“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”
― Horace Walpole

tags: clarity, decision, decisions, gardening, thinking, thought

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#12

“You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.”
― Karin Slaughter

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#13

“Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.”
― Karin Slaughter

tags: books, escape, escape-from-reality, improvement, life

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#14

“Nothing . . . is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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#15

“If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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#16

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: live-death-love

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#17

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words

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#18

“I have traveled through continents, languages, and time trying to understand all that I am and all that has made me such.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

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#19

“The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.”
― Karen Marie Moning

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#20

“It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.”
― Natsume Sōseki, I am a Cat III

tags: humanity, suffering

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#21

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

tags: books, reading, rights

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#22

“If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.”
― Walt Disney

tags: dreams

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#23

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

tags: dreaming, dreams

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#24

“I am in no way an adrenaline-seeker. I’m much more of an irritable bowel syndrome kind of gal, really. And rest assured, my bowels were highly irritated by all the stress.”
― Camille Perri, The Assistants

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#25

“Education is the only thing you can ever truly call your own.”
― Julie Freed, Naked: Stripped by a Man and Hurricane Katrina

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#26

“The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

tags: inspiration

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#27

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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#28

“Love is the answer.”
― Rik Mayall

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#29

“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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#30

“Isn't that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real?”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

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