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    Janet Evanovich
    “Exercise improves your sex life.
    Ranger to Stephanie”
    ― Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly
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    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Nick Hornby
    “People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
    ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
    tags: music, sad
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
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    Alan Alda
    “[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.”
    ― Alan Alda, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
    tags: misattributed-isaac-asimov, open-mindedness, preconceptions, self-discovery
    145 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Anatole France
    “Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: books, lending, library
    435 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
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    Sue Grafton
    “Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.”
    ― Sue Grafton
    tags: humor, independent-thought, thought
    420 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humor, philosophy
    8081 likes

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    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
    5162 likes

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    Janet Evanovich
    “My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.”
    ― Janet Evanovich
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon
    tags: fiery-cross, jamie-fraser, outlander
    1778 likes

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    Catherine Aird
    “If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.”
    ― Catherine Aird
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    Katharine Hepburn
    “Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: marriage, men, women
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Alan Alda
    “No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.”
    ― Alan Alda
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Beauty is not caused. It is.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: beauty
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    George Harrison
    “It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
    ― George Harrison
    tags: beatles, carpe-diem, future, past, present, time
    1884 likes

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    Elie Wiesel
    “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, advocacy, protest
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  • #23
    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    ― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus
    tags: poetry
    3575 likes

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  • #24
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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    Barack Obama
    “There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.”
    ― Barack Obama
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  • #26
    William Shakespeare
    “Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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  • #27
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books
    287 likes

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    Lewis Carroll
    “The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, carpenter, poem, walrus, walrus-and-the-carpenter
    720 likes

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    Meg Cabot
    “So Uncle Stuart is marrying that lady? Mom says she's going to be our aunt Amy. She's okay except she would't try any peanut butter M&M chocolate chip fudge cookies. They were good- you ate five, remember? But she said she was on a special diet, and couldn't eat something called carbs. We told her we didn't put any carbs in our cookies, just M&Ms, but she said M&Ms were carbs.
    Uncle Mitch, what's carbs?
    email to Uncle Mitch from Haily and Brittany”
    ― Meg Cabot, Boy Meets Girl
    44 likes

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  • #30
    Margaret Fuller
    “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
    ― Margaret Fuller
    tags: read, reader, reading
    4079 likes



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