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#1

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

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#2

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: life

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#3

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: loneliness, solitude

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#4

“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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#5

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#6

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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#7

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit

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#8

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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#9

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: temptation

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#10

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: friends-betrayal

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#11

“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-work

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#12

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#13

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#14

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: open-mindedness, simile

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#15

“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: be-yourself, life, self-determination

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#16

“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
― Franz Kafka

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#17

“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.”
― Michel Foucault

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#18

“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: umberto-eco

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#19

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

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#20

“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: age

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#21

“Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut?”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

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#22

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#23

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#24

“There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
― Stephen King

tags: great-writing, on-writing, stories, storytelling

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#25

“If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.”
― Stephen King

tags: library-purgatory

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#26

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

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#27

“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
― Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance

tags: optimists, pessimists, surprises

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#28

“Dogs have their day but cats have 365.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who... Omnibus 02 (Books 4-6): The Cat Who Saw Red / The Cat Who Played Brahms / The Cat Who Played Post Office

tags: cats, dogs, funny

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#29

“People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

tags: animals

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#30

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints

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