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“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
― Aisha Tyler

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“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.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
― Thea Dorn

“Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.”
― Marc Brown