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“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

“Entirely in accordance with what education is supposed to be. Education is the sum of what students teach each other in between lectures and seminars. You sit in each other's rooms and drink coffee - I suppose it would be vodka and Red Bull now - you share enthusiasms, you talk a lot of wank about politics, religion, art and the cosmos and then you go to bed, alone or together according to taste. I mean, how else do you learn anything, how else do you take your mind for a walk?”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

“there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis