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#1

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

tags: music, sad

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#2

“I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

tags: celaena-sardothien, music

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#3

“I wish we could go to the movies."
I stared at him. "We're in a creepy dungeon. There's a chance I might die in the next few hours. You are going to die in the next few hours. And if you had one wish, it would be to catch a movie?”
― Rachel Hawkins, Demonglass

tags: archer, demonglass, impending-doom, movies, rachel-hawkins, sophie

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#4

“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.”
― anthony burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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#5

“People who LIKE movies have a favorite. People who LOVE movies couldn't possibly choose.”
― Nicole Yatsonsky

tags: favorites, films, like, love, movies

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#6

“Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: movies

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#7

“I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.”
― Ewan McGregor

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#8

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#9

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed

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#10

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”
― Bob Marley

tags: love

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#11

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: love

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#12

“My bookstore obsession grew to the point where I'd search for new shops during family trips, as though that were the reason for our travel.”
― Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

tags: books, bookstores

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#13

“These places are time machines, spaceships, story-makers, secret-keepers. They are dragon-tamers, dream-catchers, fact-finders, and safe places. They are full of infinite possibilities and tales worth taking home.”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

tags: bookshops, bookstores

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#14

“Because whether we're in the middle of the desert or in the heart of a city, or the top of a mountain or on an underground train: having good stories to keep us company means the whole world.”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

tags: bookshops, bookstores

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#15

“You see, bookshops are dreams built of wood and paper. They are time travel and escape and knowledge and power. They are, simply put, the best of places.”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

tags: bookshops, bookstores

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#16

“I had a friend once who looked at his library and discovered that even if he completely stopped filmmaking (he was a filmmaker too) and just decided to read the books he had in his library, it would take him until he was 100 years old. He was a little bit panicked. But he was courageous. He went out of his house. He went to the bookstore. And he bought ten books.”
― Alain Resnais

tags: bookstore, bookstores, library, reading

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#17

“I find things hidden in books: dried flowers, locks of hair, tickets, labels, receipt, invoices, photographs, postcards, all manner of cards. I find letters, unpublished works by the ordinary, the anguished, the illiterate. Clumsily written or eloquent, they are love letters, everyday letters, secret letters and mundane letters talking about fruit and babies and tennis matches, from people signing themselves as Majorie or Jean....I can't bring myself to dispose of these snippets and snapshots of lives that once meant (or still do mean) so much.”
― Louise Walters, Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase

tags: books, bookstores, memories, reading, reading-books

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#18

“No matter how many books you own, you can never own enough. Reading books is the best addiction anyone can have.”
― Love The Stacks Bookstore

tags: book-love, books, bookstores, reading

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#19

“I remember as a very young child being warned that libraries and bookstores were quiet places where noise wasn’t allowed. Here was yet another thing the adults had gotten wrong, for these book houses pulsed with sounds; they just weren’t noisy. The books hummed. The collective noise they made was like riding on a large boat where the motor’s steady thrum and tickle vibrated below one’s sneakers, ignorable until you listened, then omnipresent and relentless, the sound that carried you forward. Each book brimmed with noises it wanted to make inside your head the moment you opened it; only the shut covers prevented it from shouting ideas, impulses, proverbs, and plots into that sterile silence.”
― Wendy Welch, The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book

tags: books, bookshops, bookstores, libraries, quiet

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#20

“People open bookstores because they want their souls back.
(from "Two Women" published in Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House)”
― Elizabeth Tallent

tags: books, bookstores, survival

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#21

“Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

tags: bookstores, community

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#22

“Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.”
― Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love

tags: book, book-lover, book-lovers, book-quote, book-quotes, books, books-reading, bookstore, bookstores, bookworm

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#23

“Lover of books, lover of knowledge.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

tags: book, book-lovers, book-quotes, books-reading, bookstores, bookworm, college-education, college-life, educational, educational-philosophy, educational-quotes, knowledge-education, knowledge-wisdom, reading-books, reading-for-life, reading-habits, reading-motivation, reading-quotes, reading-thinking, university, wisdom-inspirational, wisdom-quote, wisdom-quotes

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#24

“Books are more to treasure than cars.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

tags: book-lovers, book-quotes, books-reading, bookshelves, bookstores, educational-quotes, learning-quotes, learning-to-read, lifelong-education, lifelong-learner, lifelong-reading-quotes, reading-books, reading-books-humor, reading-for-life

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#25

“but I grew to love these spontaneous gatherings in shopping malls, university bookstores, and specialty bookshops that couldn't be replaced by the big chains, all the spaces with coffee, comfortable chairs, and the presence of books that allow people to browse and discover interests they didn't know they had.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

tags: books, bookstores, interests

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#26

“They stopped next at a bookstore. "Oh, what a delicious smell of new books!" said Ellen, as they entered. "Mamma, if it wasn't for one thing, I should say I never was so happy in my life.”
― Susan Warner

tags: books, bookstores, happy, smell-of-books

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#27

“We both know you can’t split a bookstore. (I don’t even share shelf space.)”
― Mary Jane Hathaway, The Pepper in the Gumbo

tags: books, bookstores, shelf-awareness

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#28

“...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.”
― Jim C. Hines, Libriomancer

tags: bibliophiles, bookstores, libraries

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#29

“An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

tags: books, bookstores, history, literature, philosophy, reading, science, self-help, thinking

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#30

“Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.”
― Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting

tags: book-lovers, books, bookstores, used-books

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