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#1

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#2

“I prefer to be left alone with my books.”
― Alison Weir, Innocent Traitor

tags: book-lover, jane-grey, solitude

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#3

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#4

“Le temps viendra, Je Anne Boleyn”
― Anne Boleyn

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#5

“Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day.”
― Anne Boleyn

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#6

“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.”
― William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814

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#7

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Bronte

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#8

“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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#9

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

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#10

“Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

tags: humor

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#11

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: evil, good

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#12

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

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#13

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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#14

“When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.

When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Wisława Szymborska, Poems New and Collected

tags: future, silence

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#15

“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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#16

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

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#17

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

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#18

“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
― Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian

tags: revenge

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#19

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: protection, silence, speech

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#20

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

tags: crazy, funny, words

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#21

“The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”
― Robert Benchley, My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

tags: humor

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#22

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally

tags: brains, marriage

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#23

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#24

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

tags: books

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#25

“I inhale hope with every breath I take.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept

tags: hope

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#26

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: memories

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#27

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

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#28

“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn

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#29

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: conscience, politics, right

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#30

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

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