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#2

“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

31240 likes

#3

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: loneliness, people, scared, world

4263 likes

#4

“Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

tags: intellect, lost-symbol, research

1202 likes

#5

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

tags: women

8243 likes

#6

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
― Richard Hughes

1964 likes

#7

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

tags: morning, waking-up

2793 likes

#8

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

3852 likes

#9

“Always wetweating-always wetweating!”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: napoleonic-wars, russian-literature

1 likes

#10

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

2047 likes

#11

“CUSTOMER: Do you have this children's book I've heard about? It's supposed to be very good. It's called "Lionel Richie and the Wardrobe.”
― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

tags: humor

120 likes

#12

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

6889 likes

#13

“This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.”
― Daisy Ashford, The Young Visiters

tags: humor, unrequited-love

12 likes

#14

“We must go for a day in the country and when surrounded by the gay twittering of the birds and the smell of the cows I will lay my suit at her feet and he waved his arm wildly at the gay thought.”
― Daisy Ashford, The Young Visiters

7 likes

#15

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: books, reading

3775 likes

#16

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

5015 likes

#17

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: funny

6902 likes

#18

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: inspirational, writing

4695 likes

#19

“We have learned that it is better to live with one leg than to spend your life on your knees.”
― Gregory A. Freeman

tags: nonfiction, world-war-2

2 likes

#20

“Only a fool lies brooding over his problems. When the morning comes he's tired out and his problems are the same as before.”
― Robert Lyndon

tags: adventure, historical-fiction

2 likes

#21

“I advise you against following my example. Don’t take up with a man who will die for you. Find one who will kill for you instead.”
― Donna Thorland, The Turncoat

tags: spies

19 likes

#22

“You are willing to risk your career and very probably your life for a woman you knew only three days. What kind of woman is worth that?

The only kind worth having, Major.”
― Donna Thorland

3 likes

#23

“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: books, reading

1706 likes

#24

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: humor, reading

1311 likes

#25

“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: gender-stereotypes, humor, on-fiction

623 likes

#26

“There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

1240 likes

#27