Quotes - Maureen (maureen_machado) (Wayne, NJ) Showing 1-30 of 43

#1

“Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

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#2

“Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?”
― Mo Willems, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale

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#3

“I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

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#4

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

tags: childhood, disease, literature

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#5

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
― George Sand

tags: kindness

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#6

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: books, infinite-jest

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#7

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

tags: silence

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#8

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

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#9

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

tags: books, reading

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#10

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

tags: silence

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#11

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, self-determination

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#12

“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
― Lois Lowry

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#13

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

tags: hope

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#14

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

tags: genius

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#15

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

tags: women

8247 likes

#16

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines

2629 likes

#17

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
― Richard Hughes

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#18

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women

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#19

“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

tags: alone, being-alone, self-knowledge

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#20

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

tags: books

3158 likes

#21

“You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.”
― Elissa Schappell, Blueprints for Building Better Girls

tags: motherhood

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#22

“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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#23

“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

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#24

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

tags: morning, waking-up

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#25

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

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#26

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: life

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#27

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

tags: life, reading

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#28

“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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#29

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#30

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

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