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#1

“We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being. ”
― E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

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#2

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

tags: books, literacy, reading

3225 likes

#3

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom

5510 likes

#4

“I think that if there is a hell it's just a place where you're left all alone, with nobody around you. Man, when you're alone you don't have to burn, just being by yourself for all of time would be the worst punishment the Old Man could give you”
― Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

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#5

“Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people. ”
― Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

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#6

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

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#7

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

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#8

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: family, friends, parties, social

12466 likes

#9

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

6212 likes

#10

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#11

“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: books, life, writing

635 likes

#12

“Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives”
― Alfred De Musset

tags: language, romanticism, writing

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#13

“If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.”
― Anne Fadiman

tags: bibliophile, bibliophiles, books, reader, reading

514 likes

#14

“If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#15

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: on-writing, reading, writing

1380 likes

#16

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: reading

3828 likes

#17

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain

tags: heartbreak

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#18

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: jordan-baker

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#19

“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: evil, future-inspirational

972 likes

#20

“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
― Hubert H. Humphrey

tags: free-speech

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#21

“According to Daddy, that was a time of general lunacy in Neely, but then Daddy has always said there's nothing like a good snowfall to bring out the feeble-mindedness in people. ”
― T.R. Pearson, A Short History of a Small Place

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#22

“He was never without misery, and never without hope.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#23

“You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate."

"Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#24

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

tags: art, artists, evil, happiness, pain

1591 likes

#25

“False hopes are more dangerous than fears.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

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#26

“Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales

550 likes

#27

“For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

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#28

“While analyzing some already-existing opinions on the subject, he also expressed his own view. The main thing was the tone of the article and its remarkably unexpected conclusion.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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#29

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

2796 likes

#30

“I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.”
― Michel Foucault

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