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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
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    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
    tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words
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    Annie Dillard
    “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
    ― Annie Dillard, The Living
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    tags: books, literature, reading
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    Amor Towles
    “In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.”
    ― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility
    tags: fiction, historical, romance
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    Betty Smith
    “From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: books, literature, lonliness, reading, solitude
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: literature
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    Anne Lamott
    “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
    tags: books, literature, reading, words, writing
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    Clark Zlotchew
    “Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
    ― Clark Zlotchew
    tags: 1950s, adolescent-angst, adventure, cuba, deep-south, havana, high-seas, homophobia, love, navy, old-days, political-intrigue, prostitution, racism, rite-of-passage, savannah, segregation, sex, sexism, ships, short-stories, short-story-collection, stories, unrequited-love
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    Lee Matthew Goldberg
    “As I’ve learned from life, happiness sometimes only greets us in fits and starts. For tragedy often follows merriment. Without strife, we would not know the true meaning of gaiety. That’s what I like to tell myself to ease the pain.”
    ― Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor
    tags: alaska, gold-rush, historical, thriller
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  • #17
    “I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.”
    ― Christina Dodd, Rules of Attraction
    tags: christina-dodd, historical, historical-romance, queen, queen-victoria, romance, rules-of-attraction
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    Isham Cook
    “The poor were born survivors, but their equity was bound to the land—dwelling, farm, animals.”
    ― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison
    tags: class-struggle, fiction, historical, historical-fiction, literary-fiction, qing-dynasty, social-history, survival
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    Guy Morris
    “For some, the path to enlightenment leads to a revelation; for others, it ends with a slide into insanity.”
    ― Guy Morris, The Last Ark: Lost Secrets of Qumran
    tags: adventure, ancient, dramatic, espionage, fast-paced, historical, plot-driven, political, technological, thriller
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    Jina Bacarr
    “Katie shook her head in dismay. “I thought being poor was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.”

    “No, Katie,” the countess said in a clear voice. “The worst thing is to be in love with one man and have to marry another.”

    —Katie O'Reilly to the Countess of Marbury”
    ― Jina Bacarr, Titanic Rhapsody
    tags: 1912, countess, edwardian, historical, irish, romance, titanic
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