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“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field, The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

“To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.”
― Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
― George Carlin

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain

“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”
― Golda Meir

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
― George Carlin

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
― Woody Allen

“Everything's amazing right now, and nobody's happy.”
― Louis C.K., Hopeless

“As humans, we waste the shit out of our words. It’s sad. We use words like “awesome” and “wonderful” like they’re candy. It was awesome? Really? It inspired awe? It was wonderful? Are you serious? It was full of wonder? You use the word “amazing” to describe a goddamn sandwich at Wendy’s. What’s going to happen on your wedding day, or when your first child is born? How will you describe it? You already wasted “amazing” on a fucking sandwich.”
― Louis C.K.

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis