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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “This is the creature there has never been.
    They never knew it, and yet, none the less,
    they loved the way it moved, its suppleness,
    its neck, its very gaze, mild and serene.

    Not there, because they loved it, it behaved
    as though it were. They always left some space.
    And in that clear unpeopled space they saved
    it lightly reared its head, with scarce a trace

    of not being there. They fed it, not with corn,
    but only with the possibility
    of being. And that was able to confer

    such strength, its brow put forth a horn. One horn.
    Whitely it stole up to a maid - to be
    within the silver mirror and in her.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: poetry
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    Sherman Alexie
    “What kind of life can you have in a house without books?”
    ― Sherman Alexie, Flight
    tags: books, boredom, dullness, inspiration, life, necessity, reading
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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    Lois Lowry
    “The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.

    [from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]”
    ― Lois Lowry
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “Of course, you’d warm up faster if you took your clothes off.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
    tags: innuendo, jacob-black, nakedness, naughty, sweet-talk
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    Sherman Alexie
    “They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.”
    ― Sherman Alexie, Flight
    tags: humorous
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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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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    Helene Hanff
    “Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.”
    ― Helene Hanff, Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
    tags: books, bookstore, library
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    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    ― Daphne du Maurier
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    Janet Evanovich
    “Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”
    ― Janet Evanovich
    tags: birthday, cake, life, novels, romance
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    Kate Douglas Wiggin
    “Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.”
    ― Kate Douglas Wiggin
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    Temple Grandin
    “I am different, not less.”
    ― Temple Grandin
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    Alan Bennett
    “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
    tags: books
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    David Almond
    “Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.”
    ― David Almond, My Name Is Mina
    tags: words
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “You needn't tell a bird it's a bird
    Or remind a fish of its purpose
    It's only us who lose our way
    We have names because we must.
    – from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie
    tags: losing-ourselves
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    “Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
    ― P.J. O'Rourke
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    William Shakespeare
    “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: inspirational
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Diane Setterfield
    “There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
    ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
    tags: books, power-of-words
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130167 likes



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