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#1

“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”
― Paul McCartney

tags: beatles, humor, music, nonjudgemental

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#2

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

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#3

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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#4

“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

tags: folly, preference, wisdom

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#5

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#6

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#7

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

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#8

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: genius, humor

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#9

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

tags: poetry

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#10

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: books, reading

9856 likes

#11

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness

4281 likes

#12

“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

tags: love

2088 likes

#13

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays

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#14

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: acceptance, be-yourself, frienship

2093 likes

#15

“When you think of me," she said quietly "think of a food you love very much.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

tags: lemony-snicket, the-grim-grotto

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#16

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

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#17

“Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

tags: books, library, peace, quiet

102 likes

#18

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

tags: death, life, literature, messages

1565 likes

#19

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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#20

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

tags: inspirational

2076 likes

#21

“If you must fail," he said grandly, "fail spectacularly!”
― Ranson Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#22

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: truth

2880 likes

#23

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#24

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

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#25

“People are always ruining things for you.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

1669 likes

#26

“I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#27

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

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#28

“Knowledge can hurt because you can't turn away from things anymore. You can't pretend you're blind to what's happening,' he said. 'It's a lot easier to ignore something you don't want to accept than to face it.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

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#29

“It's easy to forget other people are suffering when your own life is secure and comfortable and perfect. It's tempting to stay contained in that safe bubble forever.”
― Madeline Freeman

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#30

“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

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