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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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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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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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  • #5
    John Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
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    Carolyn G. Heilbrun
    “A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
    ― Amanda Cross
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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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  • #8
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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  • #10
    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: katharine-hepburn
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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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    Billy Sunday
    “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
    ― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ
    tags: automobile, car, funny, humor, religious
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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
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  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: funny
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  • #15
    Will Rogers
    “Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: advice, funny, reticence, silence
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    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Puns are the highest form of literature.”
    ― Alfred Hitchcock
    tags: funny, humor, literature, puns
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  • #17
    Robert Benchley
    “Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”
    ― Robert Benchley
    tags: bleeding, funny, humor, opera, stabbed
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    William Goldman
    “Inconceivable!"
    "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: bride, funny, humor, movie, princess
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: cute, funny, sad, stupid
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Burnt Offerings
    tags: anita-blake, bad-ass, funny
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  • #21
    Confucius
    “The funniest people are the saddest ones”
    ― Confucius
    tags: funny, people, sad
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  • #22
    Mae West
    “Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: funny
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  • #23
    Groucho Marx
    “Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: funny, innuendo
    720 likes

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  • #24
    “A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.”
    ― Harry Styles
    tags: cute, fun, funny, romantic
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  • #25
    Criss Jami
    “Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: funny, funny-but-true, hell, humor, introversion, introvert, introverts, parties, party, partying, people, saints, social, socializing
    705 likes

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  • #26
    Terry Pratchett
    “The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
    Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
    tags: funny, gender-stereotypes, men-and-women
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  • #27
    Tom Hiddleston
    “Loki'd!”
    ― Tom Hiddleston
    tags: evil, funny, god, hiddleston, loki, mischief, mtv, norse, prank, tom
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  • #28
    Thomas Bernhard
    “Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
    ― Thomas Bernhard, Correction
    tags: funny, humor, inspirational
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  • #29
    “Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. ”
    ― Wendell Johnson
    tags: advice, funny
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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81803 likes



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