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    Thomas S. Monson
    “Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged, adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.”
    ― Thomas S. Monson
    tags: reading
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    Lisa See
    “Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
    ― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    tags: books, novelists, reading, storytellers, storytelling, writers, writing
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    Thomas S. Monson
    “One day each of us will run out of tomorrows. Let us not put off what is important.”
    ― Thomas S. Monson
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    Dr. Seuss
    “It has often been said
    there’s so much to be read,
    you never can cram
    all those words in your head.

    So the writer who breeds
    more words than he needs
    is making a chore
    for the reader who reads.

    That's why my belief is
    the briefer the brief is,
    the greater the sigh
    of the reader's relief is.

    And that's why your books
    have such power and strength.
    You publish with shorth!
    (Shorth is better than length.)”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: humor, writing
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
    ― Cornelia Funke
    tags: books, character, cornelia-funke, existentialism, words, writers, writing
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  • #6
    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    “Man is, that he may have Joy.”
    ― The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
    tags: inspirational
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    E.B. White
    “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.”
    ― E.B. White
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    Joseph Smith Jr.
    “Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.”
    ― Joseph Smith
    tags: god, mormonism, religion
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."

    [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, death, immortality, literature, reading, transformation, words
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books-reading
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    George Orwell
    “A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?”
    ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    tags: on-writing, writing
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin
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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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    Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures
    “Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
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    ― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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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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    Walt Disney Company
    “A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.”
    ― Walt Disney Company, Cinderella
    tags: inspirational
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Walt Disney Company
    “When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”
    ― Walt Disney
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    Albert Einstein
    “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adulthood, success, value
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    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    ― Herman Melville
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    Walt Disney Company
    “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
    ― Walt Disney
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    Walt Disney Company
    “Laughter is America's most important export.”
    ― Walt Disney
    tags: laughter
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    Walt Disney Company
    “When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.”
    ― Walt Disney
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    Maya Angelou
    “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Swish and flick.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: harry-potter, sorcer, stone
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  • #30
    Walt Disney Company
    “Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.”
    ― Walt Disney
    tags: inspirational
    658 likes



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