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    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: drama, humor, plays
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    Dorothy Parker
    “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    John Berger
    “When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
    ― John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays
    tags: books, reading, stories, story
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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: books, feminist, reading
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    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    ― Henry Ward Beecherr
    tags: books, humor
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    Shelby Foote
    “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
    ― Shelby Foote
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    Chinua Achebe
    “While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”
    ― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
    tags: agape, brotherly-love, charity, compassion
    775 likes

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    Aaron Copland
    “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
    ― Aaron Copland
    tags: music
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: inspirational-humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: importance, kiss, kissing
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos
    tags: death, life
    17164 likes

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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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  • #17
    “Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
    ― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
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    Edgar Degas
    “Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
    ― Edgar Degas
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    Willa Cather
    “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
    ― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Charles Dickens
    “It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
    ― e.e. cummings
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    Samuel Butler
    “Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
    ― Samuel Butler
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: books, reading
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
    tags: books, humor, reading
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
    9134 likes

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    Anne Rice
    “Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
    ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
    tags: good-evil
    2866 likes

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    Susan Sontag
    “To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
    tags: hit, sages, thinking, violence
    851 likes



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