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#1

“Reading... a vacation for the mind....”
― Dave Barry

tags: reading

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#2

“Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.”
― James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending

tags: humor, insanity, louisiana

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#3

“God bless the Reference Librarians”
― James Lee Burke

tags: librarians

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#4

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

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#5

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

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#6

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

tags: past, time

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#7

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: reading, words, writing

5381 likes

#8

“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.”
― Quentin Crisp

tags: british, happiness, humour

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#9

“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?”
― Quentin Crisp, The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp

tags: atheism, idiocy

190 likes

#10

“Justice isn’t about fixing the past; it’s about healing the past's future.”
― Jackson Burnett

tags: crime-and-punishment, jurisprudence, justice, law, lawyers, legal-system, retribution

36 likes

#11

“What labels me, negates me.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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#12

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177284 likes

#13

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

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