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    Walter Mosley
    “A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
    ― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall
    tags: reading
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    William Strunk Jr.
    “Omit needless words.”
    ― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly
    tags: writing-words
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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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    Arnold Lobel
    “Books to the ceiling,
    Books to the sky,
    My pile of books is a mile high.
    How I love them! How I need them!
    I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
    ― Arnold Lobel
    tags: books, reading
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    Carl Hiaasen
    “The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.”
    ― Carl Hiaasen
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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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    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
    6246 likes

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    Robert Ludlum
    “The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.”
    ― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
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    Robert Ludlum
    “I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?”
    ― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
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    Robert Ludlum
    “Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.”
    ― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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  • #14
    Michael Lewis
    “Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.”
    ― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
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    Michael Lewis
    “The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.”
    ― Michael M. Lewis, Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
    tags: ignorance, trading
    101 likes

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    Michael Lewis
    “The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.”
    ― Michael Lewis, Moneyball
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    Nevil Shute
    “It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.”
    ― Nevil Shute, On the Beach
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    Hiromi Goto
    “A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.”
    ― Hiromi Goto
    tags: childhood, growing-up
    42 likes

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    Nic Stone
    “People often learn more from getting an undeserved pass than they would from being punished.”
    ― Nic Stone, Dear Martin
    tags: dear-martin, inspirational
    59 likes

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    Robertson Davies
    “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
    ― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
    tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality
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    Robertson Davies
    “A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
    ― Robertson Davies
    tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading
    1003 likes

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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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  • #23
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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  • #24
    “When I walk down the hall, I glance into the living room. It looks like time has stopped. Mom doesn’t go in there much anymore. It used to be her favorite place.”
    ― Daphne Greer, Maxed Out
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  • #25
    “Make today so awesome yesterday gets jealous.”
    ― Daphne Greer, Jacob’s Dilemma
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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  • #26
    Gordon Korman
    “Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.”
    ― Gordon Korman
    tags: education, laminating, teachers, teaching
    153 likes

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  • #27
    Raymond E. Feist
    “Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
    ― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn
    tags: life, meaning-of-life, truth
    469 likes

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  • #28
    Alan Gratz
    “You can live as a ghost, waiting for death to come, or you can dance.”
    ― Alan Gratz, Refugee
    tags: dancing, living-well
    97 likes



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