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    Neil Gaiman
    “I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?”
    ― Neil Gaiman, A Study in Emerald
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    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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    Augustine Birrell
    “Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”
    ― Augustine Birrell
    tags: book-collecting
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    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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    P.J. O'Rourke
    “Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
    ― P. J. O'Rourke
    tags: books, good-impressions
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    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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    E.B. White
    “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E.B. White
    tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
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    Laurie R. King
    “I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.”
    ― Laurie R. King
    tags: historical-fiction, mystery, sherlock-holmes
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    Mignon McLaughlin
    “Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
    ― Mignon McLaughlin
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    Mignon McLaughlin
    “We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”
    ― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
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    Diane Setterfield
    “The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.”
    ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    tags: easy, elementary, sherlock-holmes, simple
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
    tags: genius, gifts, mediocrity, recognition, sherlock-holmes, talent
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
    tags: memory, reading, trivia
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Creeping Man
    tags: convenience, exigence, favor, friends, friendship
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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
    tags: kindlehighlight
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: books, humor
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League
    tags: humor
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Christopher Roden; Tsukasa Kobayashi; Akane Higashiyama; Hiroshi Takata
    tags: inspiration, light, sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: fate, good-and-evil, sherlock-holmes
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    Daniel D. Victor
    “Each of us, I think, adopts a comfortable and familiar era or place in which to plant ourselves; and from then on, that which disagrees with our memories -- a new building here, a change in paint there -- is forever jarring and anachronistic.”
    ― Daniel D. Victor, The Seventh Bullet
    tags: memory, time
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
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