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    Yann Martel
    “If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
    tags: inkheart
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    Lois Lowry
    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share
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    Neil Gaiman
    “It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: neil-gaiman, the-graveyard-book
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
    ― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
    tags: philosophy
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    Yann Martel
    “I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
    tags: page-19-zoos-religion-freedom
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’

    Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: cats, challenge, dead, guess, humor, kinds, kinds-of-people, living, people
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    Lemony Snicket
    “The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
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    “Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.”
    ― R.J. Palacio, Wonder
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Jane Austen
    “They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: elizabeth-bennet, mr-darcy, parting, pride-and-prejudice
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    “Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?”
    ― Andrew Clements, Things Not Seen
    tags: andrew, beautiful, clements, inspirational, ironic, life, oxemoron, paradox, wisdom
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    John Steinbeck
    “His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: humanity
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    John Steinbeck
    “I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
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    Bram Stoker
    “I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: daydream, dracula, hopes, sea
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    Bram Stoker
    “Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: knowledge, memory
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    Bram Stoker
    “Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: jonathan-harker, van-helsing
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    Bram Stoker
    “Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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    “The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.”
    ― R.J. Palacio, Wonder
    tags: deeds, honor, inspiration, memories
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    Lois Lowry
    “Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
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    Jesse Andrews
    “The most beautiful thing about you is that you’re not a sock puppet.”
    ― Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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    Jerry Spinelli
    “It was like the panting of a thousand puppies.”
    ― Jerry Spinelli, Hokey Pokey
    tags: cute, dogs, metaphor
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    A.J. Betts
    “Google tells me everything I need to know about death except what comes after.”
    ― A.J. Betts, Zac and Mia
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    Willa Cather
    “Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
    ― Willa Cather, My Ántonia
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    Willa Cather
    “That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
    ― Willa Cather, My Ántonia
    tags: happiness
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    Lemony Snicket
    “I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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    Jane Austen
    “I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."

    "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: books, clichés, constancy, double-standards, education, feminism, gender, inequality, love, men, misogyny, opportunities, social-norms, stereotypes, women
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    Jane Austen
    “Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: books, life, men
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