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    Edward Albee
    “What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
    ― Edward Albee
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    Groucho Marx
    “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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    Brennan Manning
    “Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.”
    ― Brennan Manning, Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace
    tags: faith, prayer, purpose, religious, role, roles, self-worth
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    B.J. Kurtz
    “Keep track of your soul, Madison. Never compromise. Or you'll live the rest of your life regretting it--until it consumes you.”
    ― B.J. Kurtz, The Lord of Nightmares
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    Rosemary Clement-Moore
    “Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.”
    ― Rosemary Clement-Moore
    tags: genre, good-writing, literary-fiction, literary-vs-genre-fiction
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  • #6
    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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    Ilona Andrews
    “Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.”
    ― Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites
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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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  • #9
    Betty Friedan
    “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
    ― Betty Friedan
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    John Ruskin
    “If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.”
    ― John Ruskin, Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures
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    John Greenleaf Whittier
    “The windows of my soul I throw
    Wide open to the sun.”
    ― John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection
    tags: inspirational, my-psalm
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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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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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    George R.R. Martin
    “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
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
    tags: confidence
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    Deric Longden
    “Waiting for a book to be published is like having a baby. It would be nine months before we heard the patter of tiny pages trotting through the letter box, and the bookcase shuffled it's shelves in boredom and I was a martyr to morning sickness.”
    ― Deric Longden, Lost for Words
    tags: family, humour, sadness
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    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: books, e-readers, kindle, reading
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    Phyllis McGinley
    “A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
    ― Phyllis McGinley
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    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    ― Agatha Christie
    tags: inspirational
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    Patricia Cornwell
    “Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
    ― Patricia Cornwell
    tags: inspirational
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    Anne Rice
    “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
    ― Anne Rice
    tags: anne-rice, pandora
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    W.H. Auden
    “I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
    Till China and Africa meet,
    And the river jumps over the mountain
    And the salmon sing in the street”
    ― W.H. Auden
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    Nancy Pearl
    “If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up.

    If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.”
    ― Nancy Pearl
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