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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
― Groucho Marx

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
― Horace Mann

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

“The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.”
― Joseph Campbell

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
― Walter Langer

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

“It seemed to her sometimes that this was the only fight that mattered: the struggle to take the world's chaos and make it mean something, to put it to words.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
― Coco Chanel

“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
― James Dean

“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”
― Erma Bombeck

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from shallow mass movements and quietly go to work on your own self-awareness. If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
― Lao Tzu

“Since my house burned down
I now have a better view
of the rising moon”
― Mizuta Masahide

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
― Nikola Tesla