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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
    tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom
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    Adeline Yen Mah
    “I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.”
    ― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Richard Rodgers
    “Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?”
    ― Richard Rodgers, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords
    tags: adoration, beauty, love
    833 likes

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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Duffy Brown
    “I started to crawl off; then I remembered my leftover pizza, and I peeled off the salami, pepperoni, and anchovies and placed them on the CD tray (whicn no one used these days with flash drives around)on Boone's computer. I hit the close button and watched the smelly part of my delicious dinner slide away. Boone would have a great time wondering 'where's that smell coming from?”
    ― Duffy Brown, Iced Chiffon
    tags: anchovies, comedy, funny, humor, mystery, pizza, revenge, salami
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    Maya Angelou
    “I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.

    [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: books, censorship, freedom-of-thought, libraries
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
    11729 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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  • #16
    We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip
    “We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Jeneva Rose
    “As we age, we shed layers of ourselves, disintegrating like any other organic material, but some of us just break down faster than others.”
    ― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are
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    Jeneva Rose
    “When you chase all the wrong things, you’re bound to end up in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
    ― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are
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    Jeneva Rose
    “you can only grow so much when you’re stuck in the same place”
    ― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are
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    Jeneva Rose
    “If you’re afraid of falling, you’ll never fly. If you’re afraid of failing, you’ll never try. If you’re afraid of dying, you’ll never truly be alive.”
    ― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are
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    Jeneva Rose
    “But sometimes it’s the bad things in life that make us feel the most alive.”
    ― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are
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    Carlene O'Connor
    “Home should be like a soft cushion to fall upon at the end of a hard day.”
    ― Carlene O'Connor, Murder at an Irish Wedding
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    Carlene O'Connor
    “Hand fasting was an old Irish tradition in which the bride and groom’s hands would literally be tied together during the ceremony. It’s where tying the knot came from.”
    ― Carlene O'Connor, Murder at an Irish Wedding
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    Shelby Van Pelt
    “Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?”
    ― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
    tags: alien-perspective, animal-pov, honesty, humans, use-your-words, words
    216 likes

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    Fredrik Backman
    “The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, My Friends
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    Fredrik Backman
    “... it's a lie that people are scared of being alone, because what we fear is being abandoned. You can choose to be alone, but no one chooses to be left.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, My Friends
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    Fredrik Backman
    “Louisa is a teenager, the best kind of human. The evidence for this is very simple: little children think teenagers are the best humans, and teenagers think teenagers are the best humans, the only people who don’t think that teenagers are the best humans are adults. Which is obviously because adults are the worst kind of humans.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, My Friends
    59 likes



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