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#1

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

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“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

tags: books, inspirational

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#3

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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#4

“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”
― Beatrix Potter

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#5

“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
― Margaret Landon

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#6

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: words

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#7

“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
― William H. Armstrong

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#8

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

tags: criticism, history

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#9

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

tags: flattery, praise, words

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#10

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding

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#11

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

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#12

“It isn't ever delicate to live.”
― Kay Ryan

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#13

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

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#14

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

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#15

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

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#16

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

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#17

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

tags: books, imagination, writing

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#18

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

tags: humanity, life

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#19

“One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”
― John Cowper Powys

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#20

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

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#21

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen

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#22

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

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#23

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

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#24

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
― Tracy Chevalier

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#25

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

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#26

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

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#27

“Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow...”
― Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

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#28

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

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#29

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

tags: future, grammar, language, past

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#30

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: foreshadowing, macbeth

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