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“When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
― Anzia Yezierska

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“The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.”
― Timothy Mo

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#3

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

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“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

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#5

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
― Nicholson Baker

tags: books, inventions

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#6

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books

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#7

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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#8

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: atlas, shrugged

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#9

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

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#10

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting

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#11

“It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”
― Ismail Kadare, Broken April

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#12

“You are what what you eat eats.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

tags: eating, food

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#13

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology

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#14

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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#15

“It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.”
― Sheila Hancock

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#16

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

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#17

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

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#18

“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
― N. Scott Momaday

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#19

“Nothing lives long
Only the earth and mountains”
― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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#20

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

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#21

“Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”
― Katherine Mansfield

tags: eyes, happiness, happy-people, holding-hands, love, short-story, smiling

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#22

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair, life

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#23

“Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.”
― Nasir-i Khusraw

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#24

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

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#25

“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

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#26

“The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.”
― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

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#27

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme

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#28

“Do for yourself, for no one else will.”
― Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild

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#29

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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#30

“The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.”
― Carl Hiaasen

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