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#1

“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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#2

“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]

tags: hope, sun

1912 likes

#3

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
― Richard Hughes

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#4

“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge

2094 likes

#5

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

2691 likes

#6

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

tags: bathing, humor, motivation

2551 likes

#7

“That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.”
― Lynn Austin, Wonderland Creek

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#8

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor

5170 likes

#9

“It's ludicrous to even talk about (Marquis) de Sade, let alone indulge in all that, when people are being tortured and suffering for real, not for sexual games. I have no interest either in being a victim or in turning others into victims.”
― Françoise Gilot

tags: picasso-creator-and-destroyer

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#10

“Never say more than is necessary.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan

tags: essay, history

1635 likes

#11

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

2276 likes

#12

“She is deranged, but so so playful.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

142 likes

#13

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135589 likes

#14

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151602 likes

#15

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92255 likes

#16

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

84316 likes

#17

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74373 likes

#18

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

69740 likes

#19

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

1325 likes

#20

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

3348 likes

#21

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

3238 likes

#22

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

21628 likes

#23

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

1669 likes

#24

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

7214 likes

#25

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: regret, regrets, sincerity

2282 likes

#26

“What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

1310 likes

#27

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

39259 likes

#28

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

3558 likes

#29

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

2333 likes

#30

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

4350 likes

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