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    Geraldine Brooks
    “For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
    ― Geraldine Brooks, March
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    Hugh Howey
    “What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there.”
    ― Hugh Howey, The Stranded
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    Robert M. Pirsig
    “That is impractical, but practicality isn’t the whole thing with gloves or with anything else.”
    ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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    Robert M. Pirsig
    “I had been seeing that shim in a kind of intellectual, rational, cerebral way in which the scientific properties of the metal were all that counted. John was going at it immediately and intuitively, grooving on it. I was going at it in terms of underlying form. He was going at it in terms of immediate appearance. I was seeing what the shim meant. He was seeing what the shim was.”
    ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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    Dannika Dark
    “Self-doubt is a persuasive mistress; careful not to shag her or you’ll never get your balls back.” - Simon Hunt”
    ― Dannika Dark, Twist
    tags: balls, careful, dannika-dark, funny, humor, mageri, mistress, paranormal, self-doubt, shag
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: life
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Some of the plants have obituary names: Iris, Basil, Rue, Rosemary, and Verbena. Some, like meadowsweet and cowslips, sweet flag and spikenard, are like the names of Shakespeare fairies.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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    Luo Guanzhong
    “The old woman’s face was wreathed in smiles.”
    ― Luo Guanzhong, The Outlaws of the Marsh
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    Luo Guanzhong
    “Hu’s heart clanged like fifteen buckets in a single well.”
    ― Luo Guanzhong, The Outlaws of the Marsh
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    Luo Guanzhong
    “When I tell you you’ll fart and pee in your pants with terror.”
    ― Luo Guanzhong, The Outlaws of the Marsh
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    Luo Guanzhong
    “Truly, flowers open, only to be blown down by the wind.”
    ― Luo Guanzhong, The Outlaws of the Marsh
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: books, censorship, reading
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    L.J. deVet
    “The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened”
    ― L.J. deVet
    tags: author, book, book-love, book-lover, book-lovers, book-quote, books, bookworm, bookworms, l-j-devet, read, reader, readers-and-writers, reading, reading-books, reading-quote, write, writing
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    David L. Ulin
    “Reading (...) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.”
    ― David L. Ulin, The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time
    tags: books, reading, resistance
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    Amanda Penland
    “Some of the best advice my aunt gave me was if you want to find out more about something you read.”
    ― Amanda Penland
    tags: books, reading
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    Natalie Angier
    “We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
    ― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
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    Susannah Cahalan
    “Maybe it’s true what Thomas Moore said: “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.”
    ― Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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    Diane Ackerman
    “I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory”
    ― Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife
    tags: great-turn-of-phrase
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    David Grann
    “Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said, simply, “Gone.”
    ― David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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    M.L. Stedman
    “You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
    ― M.L Stedman
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  • #22
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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  • #23
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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  • #25
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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