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#1

“I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.”
― David Lynch

tags: art

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#2

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

tags: books, humor, television

6839 likes

#3

“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

931 likes

#4

“The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: writing

153 likes

#5

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

4326 likes

#6

“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

tags: 1993, inspirational, reassurance, reassuring, respite, soothing

528 likes

#7

“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

3178 likes

#8

“We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.”
― José Saramago

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#9

“We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.”
― José Saramago

37 likes

#10

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

tags: books, reading

27733 likes

#11

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

2903 likes

#12

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

tags: books, reading

2134 likes

#13

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

tags: reading, study, willful-ignorance

1235 likes

#14

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: adoration, fidelity, love

1909 likes

#15

“I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.”
― Ingrid Law, Savvy

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#16

“You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle. ”
― Ingrid Law, Savvy

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#17

“In most ways, Mibs, we Beaumonts are just like other people...We get born, and sometime later we die. And in between, we're happy and sad, we feel love and we feel fear, we eat and we sleep and we hurt like everyone else.

—Momma”
― Ingrid Law, Savvy

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#18

“Will looked back at me, startled, and I kept my heart muscle strong, feeling something inside me shiver like a pale green flower shoot just waking up for spring. But whatever that thing was, it was still too new to feel ready to bloom; it wanted time to set down roots. Someday soon I was going to bloom like crazy and then I'd have what I needed to keep me standing tall.”
― Ingrid Law, Savvy

11 likes

#19

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

tags: family, first-sentence

8032 likes

#20

“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenin

958 likes

#21

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

32990 likes

#22

“I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.”
― Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887

tags: change, customer-service, library, library-books

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#23

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: science, sex

1508 likes

#24

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

tags: confidence

1655 likes

#25

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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#26

“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: science

385 likes

#27

“What Do You Care What Other People Think?”
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman/What Do You Care What Other People Think?

117 likes

#28

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight

3815 likes

#29

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
― Judy Blume

tags: books, censor, communication, freedom, philosophy

2120 likes

#30

“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: babies, change, humor, love, parents

3168 likes

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