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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Arto Paasilinna
    “The pronunciation of both Sami and Portuguese languages is strikingly similar: the Portuguese evolved from folksy Latin while the Sami evolved from reindeers' howling.”
    ― Arto Paasilinna, Petits suicides entre amis
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    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Books. Cats. Life is Good.
    “Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
    ― Edward Gorey
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Roald Amundsen
    “Adventure is just bad planning.”
    ― Roald Amundsen
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    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    ― Daphne du Maurier
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: friendship
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    ― Nikolai V. Gogol
    tags: humor, sadness
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Anne Lamott
    “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
    ― Anne Lamott
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    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: loneliness
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    John Steinbeck
    “I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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    John Steinbeck
    “I guess there are never enough books.”
    ― John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia
    tags: books, reading, sufficiency
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    John Steinbeck
    “Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: value
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    John Steinbeck
    “It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
    ― John Steinbeck, شرق بهشت
    tags: death
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    John Steinbeck
    “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    tags: contrast, life, opposites, summer, winter
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: finnish, language, tolkien, wine
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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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    Stephen King
    “Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: darkness
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    Maurice Sendak
    “A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
    ― Maurice Sendak
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    Ben Jonson
    “Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
    You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
    Best, while you have it, use your breath;
    There is no drinking after death.”
    ― Ben Jonson
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
    tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life
    4723 likes

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    Amelia Earhart
    “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
    ― Amelia Earhart
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Tom Perrotta
    “He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
    ― Tom Perrotta, Joe College
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    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    ― Annie Proulx
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