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    Lemony Snicket
    “Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Jasper Fforde
    “I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
    tags: humor, truth
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    Jasper Fforde
    “After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots
    tags: reading
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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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    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    ― Umberto Eco
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading
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    Helen Fielding
    “It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
    ― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
    tags: heathcliff, humour, mr-darcy, snooty, wuthering-heights
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    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
    tags: books, jane-eyre
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable. ”
    ― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels
    tags: death, humor
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    Judy Blume
    “Snoring keeps the monsters away.”
    ― Judy Blume, Fudge-a-Mania
    tags: humor, snoring
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    J.M. Barrie
    “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: happiness
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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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    Victor Hugo
    “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: ideas
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: love
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
    "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
    tags: freedom, inspirational, literature
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    tags: on-writing, reading, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: book-lovers, bookworms, heavenly-rewards, judgment, reading
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    Lemony Snicket
    “No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: reading
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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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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
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    Judy Blume
    “[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.”
    ― Judy Blume
    tags: books, censorship
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
    tags: books, humor, reading
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Walt Disney Company
    “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”
    ― Walt Disney
    tags: books
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    Horace Mann
    “A house without books is like a room without windows.”
    ― Horace Mann
    tags: books, house, simile, windows
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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