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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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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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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #4
    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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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  • #8
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Francisco X. Stork
    “Be in the world but not of the world.' The words are from Jesus. But I have not the slightest idea how to accomplish that or even if it's possible. The world will always poke you in the chest with its index finger.”
    ― Francisco X. Stork, Marcelo in the Real World
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    George Sand
    “Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
    ― George Sand, Letters of George Sand
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  • #11
    Gary D. Schmidt
    “Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.”
    ― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now
    tags: librarians
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  • #12
    Betty Smith
    “From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again. ”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    Daniel Handler
    “A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
    ― Daniel Handler
    tags: humor, ignorance, lemony-snicket, library
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    Daniel Handler
    “It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.”
    ― Daniel Handler
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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  • #17
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
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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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  • #20
    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: books, feminist, reading
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  • #21
    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Alan Bennett
    “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The History Boys
    tags: books, history, reading
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  • #23
    E.E. Cummings
    “I will take the sun in my mouth
    and leap into the ripe air
    Alive
    with closed eyes
    to dash against darkness”
    ― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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  • #25
    “We practice wonder by resisting the temptation to hurry past things worth seeing, but it can take work to transcend our preconceived standards for what that worth might be... This is one of the blessings of the urban nature project: without the overly magnificent to stop us in our tracks, we must seek out the more subversively magnificent. Our sense of what constitutes wildness is expanded, and our sense of wonder along with it.”
    ― Lynada Lynn Haupt
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  • #26
    “Despise me not!
    And be not queasy
    To praise somewhat:
    Verse is not easy.”
    ― J.V. Cunningham
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    William Stafford
    “Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.”
    ― William Edgar Stafford, Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War
    tags: poets
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    William Stafford
    “Those who champion democracy, but make a fetish of never accepting anything they don't agree with -- what advantage do they see in democracy?”
    ― William Edgar Stafford, Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War
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  • #29
    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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    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Logan Pearsall Smith
    tags: life, reading
    3930 likes



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