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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Isabel Allende
    “The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
    ― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, new-year
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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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  • #5
    Wilkie Collins
    “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: afternoon, schedule, tea, toast
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    Haruki Murakami
    “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
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  • #7
    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: humility, throne
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  • #8
    Edward Albee
    “What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
    ― Edward Albee
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  • #9
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On Rainy Days
    tags: foolishness, inspirational
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  • #12
    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: women
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  • #13
    Kingsley Amis
    “Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
    ― Kingsley Amis
    tags: consciousness
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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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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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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
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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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    E.B. White
    “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E. B. White
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    Raymond Chandler
    “There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye
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    Herman Melville
    “A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
    ― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
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    Cesare Pavese
    “Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
    ― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
    tags: life, luxury
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  • #24
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Arundhati Roy
    “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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  • #29
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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  • #30
    Books. Cats. Life is Good.
    “Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
    ― Edward Gorey
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