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#1

“Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

tags: imagination, life

#2

“Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

tags: strength, underdogs, weakness

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#3

“When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters—first and foremost—how they behave.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

36 likes

#4

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: books, bookstore, towns

5388 likes

#5

“Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl

tags: chuck-klosterman, humor, lies, lying, sarcasm, truth

50 likes

#6

“The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.”
― Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

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#7

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

18 likes

#8

“What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

50 likes

#9

“Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

187 likes

#10

“Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

110 likes

#11

“[about the Middle Ages] 'And, well, also maybe it seemed like it would be okay not to be perfect. Nobody was perfect back then. Just about everyone was defective, and most people had no choice except to stay that way.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

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#12

“You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

tags: research

686 likes

#13

“No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.”
― They Might Be Giants

tags: humor, pessimistic, they-might-be-giants, tmbw

722 likes

#14

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: earnestness, gullibility, honesty

4825 likes

#15

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: forgiveness

2019 likes

#16

“She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

1309 likes

#17

“Sad stories make good books”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: inspirational

237 likes

#18

“Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: perspective, the-kite-runner

40 likes

#19

“That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

tags: boredom

616 likes

#20

“Sensitive people find it harder to stick around.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

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#21

“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

1379 likes

#22

“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

1224 likes

#23

“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

tags: language

452 likes

#24

“What mazes there are in this world. The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father recreated in his models... None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

193 likes

#25

“I am only alive because I have not yet died.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

tags: death, life

97 likes

#26

“I am mad. The thought calms me. I don't have to try to be sane anymore. It's over. I sleep”
― Marya Hornbacher

tags: bipolar-disorder, mental-health

13 likes

#27

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: music, poetry, power-of-music

1414 likes

#28

“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

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#29

“It is the job of the creator to explode. It is the task of the academic to walk around the bomb site, gathering up the shrapnel, to figure out what kind of an explosion it was, who was killed, how much damage it was meant to do and how close it came to actually achieving that.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

9 likes

#30

“But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

tags: fictional-truth, on-fiction

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