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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: life
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    Virginia Woolf
    “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
    tags: calming, reassuring, true
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: books, library
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: optimism
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer? ”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: age
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: fiction, money, on-writing, virgin, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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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
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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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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    Studs Terkel
    “People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel”
    ― Studs Terkel
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    Neil Gaiman
    “You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: change
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Iain Banks
    “You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”
    ― Iain Banks
    tags: history, reading, sci-fi
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    Mark Lawrence
    “What's it going to take for you to open that door? Gold? Blood?"

    "Your name and password."

    "My name is Honorous Jorg Ancrath, my password is divine right. Now open the fecking door.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
    tags: humor, jorg-ancrath
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    Matthew Reilly
    “I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.'
    - Alexander the Great”
    ― Matthew Reilly, Seven Deadly Wonders
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Libraries are our friends.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: libraries
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    John Rogers
    “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

    [Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
    ― John Rogers
    tags: atlas-shrugged, ayn-rand, books, children-s-literature, education, fantasy, jrr-tolkien, life-changing, lord-of-the-rings, reading, real-world
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    Ben Aaronovitch
    “I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting".
    "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch
    tags: peter-grant
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    Ben Aaronovitch
    “For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.”
    ― Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho
    tags: humour
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Ernest Cline
    “People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.”
    ― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
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    Graham Greene
    “People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”
    ― Graham Greene
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Red Country
    tags: good-times, life, nostalgia
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
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