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    Alan Bennett
    “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
    tags: books
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    Amy Sedaris
    “I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge
    2099 likes

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    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
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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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    Christopher Morley
    “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
    ― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls
    tags: bibliophilia, books
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    Christopher Morley
    “Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
    ― Christopher Morley
    tags: do, morley, read, think
    293 likes

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    Christopher Morley
    “High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.”
    ― Christopher Morley
    tags: fashion
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    Christopher Morley
    “The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. ”
    ― Christopher Morley
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    Christopher Morley
    “No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”
    ― Christopher Morley
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    Christopher Morley
    “Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ”
    ― Christopher Morley
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    Christopher Morley
    “There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”
    ― Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop
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    Christopher Morley
    “There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.”
    ― Christopher Morley
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    Christopher Morley
    “Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error. ”
    ― Christopher Morley
    tags: books
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: acquiescence, authority, complicity, dissent, protest, silence
    1179 likes

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    Patrick Jones
    “The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.”
    ― Patrick Jones, Nailed
    tags: authority, different, metaphor, rebels, wisdom
    238 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: authority
    89 likes

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    Stanley Milgram
    “The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.”
    ― Stanley Milgram
    tags: authority, ethics, government, obedience, responsibility, society, state
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    Jefferson Smith
    “You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.”
    ― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
    tags: authority, belief, credibility, fantasy, gullibility, humor, humour, reputation, trust, young-adult
    71 likes

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    Alan Moore
    “Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: authority
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    Joseph Heller
    “-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
    tags: army, authority, conservatism, conservatives, military, right-wingers, war
    108 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
    5359 likes

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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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    Toni Morrison
    “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Beloved
    tags: freedom, self
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humour
    8622 likes

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    Robert Orben
    “Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
    ― Robert Orben
    tags: humour, politics, truth
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
    13382 likes

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    William Goldman
    “When I was your age, television was called books.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: book, fantasy, humour
    3008 likes



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