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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: freedom
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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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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    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: beauty, class, fashion, girls, women
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    Gregory Maguire
    “There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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    Agatha Christie
    “One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Clocks
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    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading
    3616 likes

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    Franz Kafka
    “All language is but a poor translation.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    William Trevor
    “I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
    ― William Trevor
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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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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    Lillian Hellman
    “People change and forget to tell each other.”
    ― Lillian Hellman
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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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    Anthony Kiedis
    “When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.”
    ― Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
    tags: truth, writing
    92 likes

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  • #16
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Théophile Gautier
    “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
    ― Théophile Gautier
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
    8895 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: crooked-kingdom, inej-ghafa, kaz-brekker, six-of-crows
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: arrow, heart, inej, romance, suli-poverb
    4686 likes

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    Philippa Gregory
    “You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.”
    ― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl
    677 likes

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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
    51595 likes

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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Francis of Assisi
    “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
    ― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
    tags: inspirational
    4836 likes

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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
    16202 likes

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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
    8990 likes



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