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#1

“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

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#2

“Friends can be a pain. They can be demanding and hard work. But maybe that's because they're the wrong friends. I read a quote once, can't remember who by, but they said that your friends aren't necessarily the people you like best, they're just the people who got there first.”
― Lisa Jewell, Ralph's Party

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#3

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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#4

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#5

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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#6

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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#7

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

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#8

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Many Inventions

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#9

“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars

tags: humor, justification, mistakes, pretexts

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#10

“The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

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#11

“The tale of someone's life begins before they are born.”
― Michael Wood, Shakespeare

tags: life-story

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#12

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#13

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

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#14

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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#15

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#16

“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
― Thor Heyerdahl

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#17

“And the first king was a lucky soldier.”
― S.M. Stirling, Dies the Fire

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#18

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

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#19

“I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.”
― Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho

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#20

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: literature

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#21

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

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#22

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: kissing, love, romance

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#23

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: atticus-finch, courage

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#24

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

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#25

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

16304 likes

#26

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

14733 likes

#27

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31260 likes

#28

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: memories

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#29

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

tags: life, world

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#30

“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

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