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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
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    “If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”
    ― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
    tags: awesome, dealing-with-it, mottos
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    “It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae”
    ― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
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  • #4
    “If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”
    ― Larry McMurtry
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    Tess Uriza Holthe
    “When you start to say to yourself, just one look back, just one glance, the danger will have begun for you.”
    ― Tess Uriza Holthe, When the Elephants Dance
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  • #6
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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  • #7
    Geraldine Brooks
    “For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
    ― Geraldine Brooks, March
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  • #8
    Shmuley Boteach
    “There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
    ― Shmuley Boteach
    tags: relationships
    3382 likes

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  • #9
    Garth Risk Hallberg
    “The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference.”
    ― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
    tags: america
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  • #10
    Bob Newhart
    “I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
    ― Bob Newhart
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    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
    tags: books
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    Kate Chopin
    “There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,—when it did not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation. She could not work on such a day, nor weave fancies to stir her pulses and warm her blood.”
    ― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
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    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
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Michele Bardsley
    “At this point, a spaceship could land on Main Street and Elvis could saunter out singing "Love Me Tender," and I wouldn't be surprised”
    ― Michele Bardsley, Come Hell or High Water
    tags: humor
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  • #16
    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: benediction, johnny-cade, ponyboy-curtis, ralph-macchio
    3745 likes

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    Derek The Ghost
    “Ms. Fang is the nicest, sweetest teacher at Scary School. She only ate twelve kids last year.”
    ― Derek The Ghost, Scary School
    tags: comedy, funny, horror, humor, scary, school
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  • #18
    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith
    tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude
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  • #19
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: funny
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  • #20
    “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres
    tags: pointlessness, quote-by-ellen-goodman
    273 likes

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  • #21
    “Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: funny, law
    325 likes

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  • #22
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #23
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #24
    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    tags: books, literature, reading
    3535 likes

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  • #25
    Veronica Roth
    “No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
    tags: brave, bravery, courage, dauntless, experience, life, training
    1923 likes

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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
    37980 likes

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  • #27
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
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  • #28
    Mary Engelbreit
    “Wherever you go, there you are!”
    ― Mary Engelbreit
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  • #29
    Isabel Allende
    “There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”
    ― Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
    tags: immortality, remembrance
    621 likes

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  • #30
    Isabel Allende
    “We only have what we give.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: charity, compassion, helping-others
    540 likes



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