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    Charles Dickens
    “..."The plain rule is, to do nothing in the dark, to be party to nothing under-handed or mysterious, and never to put his foot down where he cannot see ground.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Bleak House
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    Mordecai Richler
    “All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration it creates”
    ― Mordecai Richler
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    Jeremy Bentham
    “. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption, and delusion, for the support of depredation and oppression in the hands of governments.”
    ― Jeremy Bentham, Constitutional Code; For the Use All Nations and All Governments Professing Liberal Opinions Volume 1
    tags: corruption, delusion, government, intimidation, oppression, purpose, system-of-religion
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “..."he was responsible only to himself for the things he did. Freedom! He was his own master at last. From old habit, unconsciously he thanked god he no longer believed in him.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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    Richard Matheson
    “A man could get used to anything if he had to.”
    ― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories
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    George Eliot
    “I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: love
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    Mordecai Richler
    “I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.”
    ― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version
    tags: human, literature, psychiatry
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Thomas Wolfe
    “The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”
    ― Thomas Wolfe, God's Lonely Man
    tags: loneliness
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    Charles Dickens
    “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: literature
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    William Shakespeare
    “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2
    tags: anarchy, classic, murder, wit
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    Anthony Powell
    “I get a warm feeling among my books.”
    ― Anthony Powell
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Adlai E. Stevenson II
    “All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.”
    ― Adlai E. Stevenson II
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    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    ― Umberto Eco
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading
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    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    ― Moliere
    tags: inspirational, patience
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
    tags: adventure
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Sleep is a very capricious goddess, and it is precisely when she is invoked that she delays coming.
    - Page 184”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After
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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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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Eoin Colfer
    “It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
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    Hilary Mantel
    “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: facts, knowledge
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    Amy Vanderbilt
    “I have no use for people who exhibit manners.”
    ― Amy Vanderbilt
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    Yves Saint-Laurent
    “We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
    ― Yves Saint Laurent
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    Graham Greene
    “Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”
    ― Graham Greene, The Comedians
    tags: breakup, love, romance
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    China Miéville
    “Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
    ― China Miéville, The City & the City
    tags: books, ideas, stories
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    Guy Vanderhaeghe
    “I've always found that a really lively argument depends on the ignorance of the combatants.”
    ― Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending: Selected Stories
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    Evelyn Waugh
    “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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