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    Jane Austen
    “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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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: books, garden, reading
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    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    ― Jane Austen
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    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: greatness
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  • #6
    Anne Frank
    “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
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    William Shakespeare
    “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: destiny
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  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: cynic
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    J. Maarten Troost
    “Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.”
    ― J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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    Jean de La Bruyère
    “Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
    ― Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères
    tags: time
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    Agatha Christie
    “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
    tags: impossible
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    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness
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    Rebecca West
    “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
    ― Rebecca West
    tags: feminism, qotd
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    Edith Wharton
    “Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
    ― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
    tags: carpe-diem, day, daytime, window
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott
    tags: aspirations, dreams, goals, ideals
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words
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  • #20
    Charles Dickens
    “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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  • #21
    LeVar Burton
    “For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
    ― LeVar Burton
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    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    tags: books, literature, reading
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  • #23
    Dodie Smith
    “How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: jane-austen
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    Abraham Sutzkever
    “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
    ― Abraham Sutzkever
    tags: misattributed-to-tom-stoppard
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    Mildred D. Taylor
    “So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.”
    ― Mildred D. Taylor, The Land
    tags: impossibility, inspirational, possibility
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  • #26
    W.G. Sebald
    “It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
    ― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo
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    Maurice Sendak
    “Let the wild rumpus start!”
    ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
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  • #29
    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck
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  • #30
    “I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.”
    ― Jana Stanfield
    tags: action, caring, good, good-deeds, help, helping-others, love, service, serving-others
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  • #31
    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
    11473 likes



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