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“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
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Fran Lebowitz,
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
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#2
“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
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John Ruskin,
The Stones of Venice
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#3
“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
―
William Shakespeare,
Hamlet
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#4
“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
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Amy Tan,
The Hundred Secret Senses
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2585 likes
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#5
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
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Harper Lee,
To Kill a Mockingbird
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reading
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#6
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
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Corrie Ten Boom,
Clippings from My Notebook
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#7
“A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.”
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Edmond Rostand,
Cyrano de Bergerac
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#8
“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
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#9
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
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George Orwell,
1984
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#10
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
―
Leonardo da Vinci
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4362 likes
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#11
“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
―
Theodore Roethke,
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
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life
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1301 likes
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#12
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
―
William Styron,
Conversations with William Styron
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#13
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
―
George R.R. Martin,
A Dance with Dragons
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#14
“Adventure is just bad planning.”
―
Roald Amundsen
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