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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Logan Pearsall Smith
    tags: life, reading
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    “I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.”
    ― Sandy Welch
    tags: coldness, conflict, despair, harshness, hell, industrialization, loneliness, misattributed-elizabeth-gaskell, unkindness
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    Tennessee Williams
    “I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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    Tennessee Williams
    “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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    Anna Godbersen
    “Don't go looking for boys in the dark
    They will say pretty things then
    leave you with scars.
    Do go looking for boys in the park
    For that is where the true gentlemen are.”
    ― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
    tags: advice, gentlemen, humor, love, wisdom
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: game-of-thrones, george-r-r-martin, song-of-ice-and-fire, tyrion-lannister
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: imperfect, love
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Tom Stoppard
    “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing
    tags: life, writing
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    Anna Godbersen
    “To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.”
    ― Anna Godbersen, Envy
    tags: difficulties
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    Anna Godbersen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.”
    ― Anna Godbersen, Envy
    tags: dance, gentlemen, paraphrased, universal-truths
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    Kody Keplinger
    “No matter where you go or what you do to distract yourself, reality catches up with you eventually.”
    ― Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
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    Anna Godbersen
    “So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.”
    ― Anna Godbersen, Rumors
    tags: life
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    tags: book, reading
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
    tags: infinity, passion, time
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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    Leah Rae Miller
    “I'm a geeky badass, and I'm loving it.”
    ― Leah Rae Miller, The Summer I Became a Nerd
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    Becca Ann
    “You are so wonderfully bizarre.”
    ― Becca Ann, Reasons I Fell for the Funny Fat Friend
    22 likes



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