2026 Reading Challenge

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  • #1
    “You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.”
    ― Al Capone
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Find what you love and let it kill you.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: love
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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  • #4
    Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!
    “Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!”
    ― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
    tags: where-the-wild-things-are
    639 likes

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  • #5
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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  • #6
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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  • #7
    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
    32147 likes

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  • #8
    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
    23990 likes

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  • #9
    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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  • #10
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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  • #11
    John Green
    “Some people have lives; some people have music.”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: humor, life, music
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  • #12
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: beauty, music, sadness
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Songs are as sad as the listener.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: music, perception
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    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
    4476 likes

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  • #16
    Bob Dylan
    “Play it fuckin' loud!”
    ― Bob Dylan
    tags: fuck, music, profanity, rock-music
    2016 likes

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  • #17
    Joan Jett
    “Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.”
    ― Joan Jett
    tags: balls, boobs, gumption, guts, humor-inspirational, joan-jett, rock-and-roll, rock-music
    99 likes

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    Gerard Way
    “If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.”
    ― Gerard Way
    tags: music
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    Aldous Huxley
    “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
    tags: music
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
    5375 likes

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  • #21
    Aldous Huxley
    “I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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  • #22
    Aldous Huxley
    “I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    207 likes

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  • #23
    Aldous Huxley
    “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting
    1264 likes

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  • #24
    Aldous Huxley
    “There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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  • #25
    Aldous Huxley
    “I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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  • #26
    Aldous Huxley
    “Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. "I ate civilization.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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  • #27
    Aldous Huxley
    “The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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  • #28
    Aldous Huxley
    “A man can smile and smile and be a villain.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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  • #29
    Aldous Huxley
    “I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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  • #30
    Aldous Huxley
    “I like being myself. Myself and nasty.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    826 likes



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