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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: cheese, poetry
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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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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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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  • #14
    “If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.”
    ― H.N. Turteltaub, The Sacred Land
    tags: misattributed-cassandra-clare, misattributed-jace
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    Neil Gaiman
    “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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  • #17
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, knowledge
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship, inspirational
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
    tags: death, humor, life
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
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    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books
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  • #24
    Stephen King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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  • #25
    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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  • #26
    Christopher Paolini
    “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: books, christopher-paolini, eragon, good-reads
    6287 likes

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  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
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  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #29
    Terry Pratchett
    “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: heartbreak
    6888 likes



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