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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: a-good-father
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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    Fredrik Backman
    “People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen as time passes,” but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So in the end we just pack it into bags and find somewhere to leave it.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
    tags: death-of-a-loved-one, sorrow
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    Fredrik Backman
    “Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild’s ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
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    Fredrik Backman
    “Because if a sufficient number of people are different, no one has to be normal.”
    ― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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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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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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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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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Stephen King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Ayn Rand
    “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Paulo Coelho
    “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: wisdom
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    Haruki Murakami
    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: adversity, inspirational, life-lessons, problems, trials
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower
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    Kathryn Stockett
    “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran
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    Anthony Doerr
    “A real diamond is never perfect.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    Victor Hugo
    “There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Jeannette Walls
    “The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy--angles leading their flocks out of the darkness.”
    ― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
    tags: calling, teachers
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    Nina George
    “Do we only decide in retrospect that we've been happy? Don't we notice when we're happy, or do we realize only much later that we were?”
    ― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop
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    Nina George
    “We men become a pain if our job's the only thing we were ever good at.”
    ― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop
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    “There are times when you have to rely on other people, sit back and let them help you, be quiet, be appreciative, and stay out of their way.”
    ― Jim Kokoris, It's. Nice. Outside.
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    Kathleen Thompson Norris
    “Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. ”
    ― Kathleen Thompson Norris, Hands Full of Living
    tags: books
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    Kathleen Norris
    “Once, when I was describing to a friend from Syracuse, New York, a place on the plains that I love, a ridge above a glacial moraine with a view of almost fifty miles, she asked, "But what is there to see?" The answer, of course, is nothing. Land, sky, and the ever-changing light.”
    ― Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
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    Kathleen Norris
    “An old farmer once asked my husband and me how long we'd been in the country. "Five years," we answered. "Well, then," he said, "you've seen rain.”
    ― Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
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