Quotes - Barry (bphile726) (Ridge, NY) Showing 1-30 of 30

#1

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

tags: morning, waking-up

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#2

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

3907 likes

#3

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

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#4

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

tags: inspirational

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#5

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

tags: books, imagination, writing

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#6

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: foreshadowing, macbeth

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#7

“And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.”
― Suzan-Lori Parks

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#8

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

4377 likes

#9

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

1691 likes

#10

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

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#11

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

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#12

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

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#13

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

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#14

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

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#16

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

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#17

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

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#18

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

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#19

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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#20

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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#21

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

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#22

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

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#23

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

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#24

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: misattributed-kurt-cobain

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#25

“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
― Voltaire

tags: books, reading

1054 likes

#26

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

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#27