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#1

“Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?”
― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

tags: lgbtq, life, love

#2

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#3

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#4

“I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: colonel

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#5

“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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#6

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#7

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

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#8

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

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#9

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

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#10

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

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#11

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

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#12

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading

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#13

“Do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it?" - Tiny Copper (Will Grayson, Will Grayson)”
― John Green

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#14

“You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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#15

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#16

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#17

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#18

“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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#19

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#20

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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#21

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#22

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

tags: books

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#23

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

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#24

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

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#25

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

tags: books, humor, reading

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