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#1

“If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.”
― Joe Queenan, One for the Books

tags: books, reading, reading-books

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#2

“I hoisted myself onto my elbows. "Yeah, well, if I ever come back as a Grigori, then I'll kick your ass."
"You'll come back, and you'll be a Grigori." He spoke with such certainty it made me smile. "I doubt very greatly, however, that you'll kick my ass. But me and my ass will enjoy your efforts.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Embrace

tags: angels, embrace, grigori, jessica-shirvington, phoenix, the-violet-eden-chapters, violet-eden

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#3

“Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Phoenix

tags: blind, chuck-palahniuk, phoenix, photograph, stealing

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#4

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

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#5

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

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#7

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

tags: life, people, viewpoint

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#8

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
― Edith Sitwell

tags: catfish, eccentricity, eels, fish, individuality

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#9

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

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#10

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

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#11

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

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#12

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

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#13

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

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#14

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

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#15

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

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#16

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
― E. Nesbit, The Magic World

tags: eat, eating, humor, luxury, reading

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#17

“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

tags: desires, promises

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#18

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor

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#19

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

tags: funny, humor, literature, puns

2177 likes

#20

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

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#21

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

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#22

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: parenting, role-models

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#23

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

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#24

“These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.”
― Giorgio Vasari

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#25

“For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

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#26

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc

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#27

“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”
― Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

tags: filters

1035 likes

#28

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

tags: inspirational

1715 likes

#29

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

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#30

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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#31

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

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