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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127100 likes

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  • #3
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
    43889 likes

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  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
    46485 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
    36843 likes

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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
    35630 likes

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  • #8
    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
    31230 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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  • #10
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
    26988 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
    25333 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
    22500 likes

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    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, girls, love
    21610 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
    21819 likes

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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
    20725 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
    20164 likes

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  • #17
    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
    18081 likes

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  • #19
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
    18125 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
    16762 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
    16215 likes

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  • #22
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
    tags: life, love
    15814 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
    16753 likes

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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
    13746 likes

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  • #26
    “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
    13229 likes

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  • #27
    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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  • #28
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
    19852 likes

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  • #30
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
    10769 likes



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