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    George Orwell
    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
    'Where we going, man?'
    'I don't know but we gotta go.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
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    Jack Kerouac
    “I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: inspirational
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
    is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
    person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality
    3508 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: this-side-of-paradise
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: love
    328 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
    ― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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  • #10
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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  • #11
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Amory: I love you.
    Rosalind: I love you- now.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: cynicism, love
    52 likes

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  • #12
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: life-death
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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: diplomacy, empowerment, life, relationships, subtlety
    917 likes

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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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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”
    ― Cicero
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: history, latin
    499 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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  • #19
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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  • #22
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #23
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32149 likes

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  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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  • #25
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
    18015 likes

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  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
    14710 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: attributed-no-source, humor, misattributed-douglas-adams, wit
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    A.A. Milne
    “Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: wisdom
    1434 likes

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  • #29
    LeVar Burton
    “For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
    ― LeVar Burton
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  • #30
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    1266 likes



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