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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, books
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    Agatha Christie
    “There's no doubt about what the man's profession has been. He's a retired hairdresser. Look at that moustache of his.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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    Robert B. Parker
    “You guys look like you shipped back here in a crate,” Quirk said.
    “Clothes are fresh from the dryer,” I said. “Just need a little ironing.”
    “So does your life,” Belson said.”
    ― Robert B. Parker, A Catskill Eagle
    tags: noir
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    Katy Milkman
    “making hard things seem fun is a much better strategy than making hard things seem important”
    ― Katy Milkman, How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
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    Aldous Huxley
    “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    ― Niels Bohr
    tags: science
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Charles Dickens
    “A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: first-love, gender-roles, last-love, love, men, men-and-women, men-mars-women-venus, relationships, women
    408 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Anne Fadiman
    “If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.”
    ― Anne Fadiman
    tags: bibliophile, bibliophiles, books, reader, reading
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    Anthony Trollope
    “What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
    ― Anthony Trollope, The Warden
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    Criss Jami
    “The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: principle, style
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    Angie Thomas
    “What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: black-lives-matter, racism
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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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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Chloe Walsh
    “I hated humans.
    They were such a disappointment.
    And to think, god switched dinosaurs for man.
    He must be raging.”
    ― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13
    tags: binding-13, boys-of-tommen, dinosaurs
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    Carl Sagan
    “It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
    ― Carl Sagan
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    John Waters
    “Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”
    ― John Waters, Role Models
    tags: books, wealth
    770 likes

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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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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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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
    4053 likes

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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
    176311 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Matthew Edward Hall
    “The tree of which we are branches on, makes choices yesterday, by the choices we make today.”
    ― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
    tags: allah, christmas, divine, earth, god, greatspirit, inspirational, life, love, miracles
    407 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Sidney Sheldon
    “Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.”
    ― sidney sheldon
    tags: life
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
    17361 likes



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