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#1

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading

6410 likes

#2

“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: cynicism, human, life, philosophy, wisdom

418 likes

#3

“If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.”
― Neale Donald Walsch

274 likes

#4

“Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

tags: abercrombie, logen-ninefingers

1144 likes

#5

“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

tags: learning, life-lessons, mistakes

1324 likes

#6

“There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'"
"The mood will pass, sir.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters

tags: appearance, bad-mood, clothes, dejection, humor

735 likes

#7

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45229 likes

#8

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

21438 likes

#9

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: humor, life

3615 likes

#10

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

2169 likes

#11

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

tags: full, hat, pratchett, sky, terry

1519 likes

#12

“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

tags: conservation, environmentalism, humor

1035 likes

#13

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”
― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

1564 likes

#14

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

8122 likes

#15

“Ultimately, arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
― Edward Snowden

tags: privacy, snowden

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