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    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    William Styron
    “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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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: books
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  • #8
    Stephen King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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  • #9
    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
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  • #10
    Eckhart Tolle
    “The past has no power over the present moment.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle
    tags: education, inspirational, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom
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  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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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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  • #16
    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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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    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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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    John Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
    tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life
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    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: experience, inspirational, pain, wisdom, wounds
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    Veronica Roth
    “No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
    tags: brave, bravery, courage, dauntless, experience, life, training
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “By seeking and blundering we learn.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: education, experience, learning-from-mistakes
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  • #26
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
    tags: kindlehighlight
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  • #27
    Jamie McGuire
    “I knew the second I met you
    that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it
    wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you.”
    ― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
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    Jamie McGuire
    “I know we're fucked up, alright? I'm impulsive, and hot tempered, and you get under my skin like no one else. You act like you hate me one minute, and then need me the next. I never get anything right, and I don't deserve you...but I fucking love you, Abby. I love you more than I loved anyone or anything ever. When you're around, I don't need booze, or money, or the fighting, or the one-night stands...”
    ― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
    tags: love
    2812 likes

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  • #29
    Colleen Hoover
    “Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Slammed
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  • #30
    Colleen Hoover
    “Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday
    2261 likes



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