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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
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    José Rizal
    “One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
    ― Jose Rizal
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    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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  • #6
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    ― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
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    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
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    Jessica Khoury
    “Well, that's the thing, isn't it? Everyone always blames the monster--but no one ever blames the one who created it. Isn't that right?" He sneered at Moira's limp form. "Tell me, who is the monster? The creation or the creator? It has to start somewhere.”
    ― Jessica Khoury, Vitro
    tags: blame, creation, creator, monster
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    Sara Raasch
    “Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”
    ― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes
    tags: blizzards, revolution, sara-raasch, snow-like-ashes, winter
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
    tags: cold, desolation, jaded, lonley, sad-truth, winter
    333 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “Winter is coming.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: forcasting, mottos, winter
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Nothing burns like the cold.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: burn, cold, winter
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    Robert Byrne
    “Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.”
    ― Robert Byrne
    tags: winter
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    Mark Helprin
    “Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells.”
    ― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
    tags: inspirational, seasonal, winter
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  • #20
    “December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...”
    ― John Geddes A Familiar Rain
    tags: breath, cloud, december, frost, memory, summer, winter
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  • #21
    William Blake
    “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: betrayal, disappointment
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  • #22
    John Grisham
    “Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
    ― John Grisham, The Rainmaker
    tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime
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    Noam Chomsky
    “For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
    tags: crime, double-standards, hypocrisy, politics, power, war-crimes
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  • #24
    A.A. Bell
    “I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!”
    ― A.A. Bell, Diamond Eyes
    tags: crime, diamond-eyes, fantasy, humour, inspirational, science-fiction, thriller
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  • #25
    Mae West
    “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
    ― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
    tags: ambition, disobedience, empowerment, girls, goodness, naughty, promiscuity, risque, self-determination, wickedness, women
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All things truly wicked start from innocence.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: ignorance, innocence, wickedness
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    John Updike
    “Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.”
    ― John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick
    tags: food, wickedness
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    Heather Topham Wood
    “Maybe I was a fool to turn my back on him after his warnings, but the bad guys didn't warn you first. No, the truly wicked ones lured you in with kindness and then blindsided you with their mercilessness.”
    ― Heather Topham Wood, Falling for Autumn
    tags: evil, good-and-evil, wickedness
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  • #29
    Socrates
    “It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.”
    ― Socrates, Apology
    tags: death, wickedness
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  • #30
    Giacomo Casanova
    “Be the flame, not the moth.”
    ― Giacomo Casanova
    tags: passion, self-destruction
    2055 likes



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