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#1

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

#2

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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#3

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93662 likes

#4

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

tags: friendship

12514 likes

#5

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88147 likes

#6

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151844 likes

#7

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books

8706 likes

#8

“On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

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#9

“Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.”
― Philip Reeve

tags: heart, love

152 likes

#10

“The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.”
― Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur

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#11

“It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.”
― Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines

tags: atmospheric, intruiging, opening-lines

53 likes

#12

“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

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#13