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    Terry Pratchett
    “Pollution removed his helmet and shook out his long white hair. He had taken over when Pestilence, muttering about penicillin, had retired in 1936.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “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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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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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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    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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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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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “But you built me dreams instead.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
    tags: father, ghost, hamlet, shakespeare
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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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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    Markus Zusak
    “Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: hope, inspirational, life, philosophy
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    Markus Zusak
    “It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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    Markus Zusak
    “Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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    Markus Zusak
    “If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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    Markus Zusak
    “She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
    You can kill a man with those words.
    No gun.
    No bullets.
    Just words and a girl.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: boys, hate, love
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    Markus Zusak
    “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: power-of-words
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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
    ― Markus Zusak
    tags: book
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humor, philosophy
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    Plato
    “Love is a serious mental disease.”
    ― Plato, Phaedrus
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    Plato
    “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: abilities, empowerment, equality, gender, instruction, jobs, men, skills, women, work
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    Plato
    “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
    ― Plato
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    Voltaire
    “Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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