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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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    Isak Dinesen
    “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
    ― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales
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    Amy Tan
    “Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    Ovid
    “Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
    ― Ovid
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    Steve Martin
    “Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, words
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    Theodore Dreiser
    “How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.”
    ― Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
    tags: words
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    Walter Mosley
    “A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
    ― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall
    tags: reading
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    Sherwood Anderson
    “Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.”
    ― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
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    Edith Wharton
    “Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
    ― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
    tags: carpe-diem, day, daytime, window
    1986 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.”
    ― CS Lewis
    tags: dream, future, goals, old
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    Margaret Fuller
    “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
    ― Margaret Fuller”
    ― Margaret Fuller
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    Susan Sontag
    “My library is an archive of longings.”
    ― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
    tags: books, library, longing
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    John Green
    “What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.”
    ― John Green
    tags: an-abundance-of-katherines, colin-singleton, john-green
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: brave, courage, dreams, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, purpose, vision
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    Confucius
    “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight
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    Bertolt Brecht
    “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
    tags: book, hunger, weapon
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    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, books, re-reading, reading
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    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    ― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist
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    Jo Walton
    “I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.”
    ― Jo Walton, Among Others
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    Margaret Mead
    “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
    ― Margaret Mead
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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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    Alexander Pope
    “Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
    ― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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  • #27
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams
    tags: night, poetry
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    T.H. White
    “The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
    ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
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    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think life asks more of you than watching TV.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: true-to-life
    79 likes

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    Mitch Albom
    “The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”
    ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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