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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: evil
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
    tags: books, obsession
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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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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    Stephen King
    “A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
    ― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew
    tags: reading, writing
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    Maya Angelou
    “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: literature, reading, self-discovery, youth
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    Nick Hornby
    “All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.”
    ― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
    tags: books, identity, individuality
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: authors, good-books, truth, writers
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    Albert Einstein
    “Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: diversity, independent-thought, reading
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    Malcolm X
    “My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: books, reading
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    Germaine Greer
    “A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
    ― Germaine Greer
    tags: innocence, libraries, reading, sexuality, virginity
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.

    [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: books, censorship, freedom-of-thought, libraries
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    Truman Capote
    “There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.”
    ― Truman Capote
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    Truman Capote
    “Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: life, metaphor
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    Truman Capote
    “would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.”
    ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories
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    Truman Capote
    “To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
    ― Truman Capote, Truman Capote: Conversations
    tags: creative-process, music, poetry, writing
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    Truman Capote
    “Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.”
    ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
    tags: holly-golightly
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    Truman Capote
    “There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.”
    ― Truman Capote, The Muses Are Heard
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    Truman Capote
    “there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.”
    ― Truman Capote, The Thanksgiving Visitor
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    Truman Capote
    “Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.”
    ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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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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  • #28
    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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    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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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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