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#1

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#2

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit

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#3

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#4

“Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
― Jack London

tags: club, inspiration

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#5

“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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#6

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

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#7

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading

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#8

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: gratitude, happiness

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#9

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

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#10

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

tags: death, fear, humor, life

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#11

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

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#12

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

tags: age-adult

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#13

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

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#14

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#15

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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#16

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

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#17

“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
― James Baldwin

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#18

“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
― James Baldwin

tags: change, cry, people

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#19

“Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”
― James Baldwin

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#20

“God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: religion

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#21

“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

tags: honesty

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#22

“Love weighs nothing.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

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#23

“He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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#24

“The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

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#25

“Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean!”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

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#26

“Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

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#27

“While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.”
― Jeffrey Archer

tags: and-thereby-hangs-a-tale, book, short-story

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#28

“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
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― Don Miguel Ruiz

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#29

“Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

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#30

“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
― Agatha Christie

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