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#1

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

#2

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

20651 likes

#3

“But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King

tags: laugh, life, religion, weep

265 likes

#4

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

tags: death

1614 likes

#5

“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

1750 likes

#6

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

13159 likes

#7

“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

1491 likes

#8

“It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”
― Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts

tags: happiness

1270 likes

#9

“Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
― Emily Murphy

1249 likes

#10

“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
― Henry Fielding

tags: contentment, inner-peace

1417 likes

#11

“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
― Shusaku Endo

tags: weakness

1528 likes

#12

“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

tags: romance

1388 likes

#13

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

tags: passion, self-destruction

2055 likes

#14

“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.”
― Cat Cora

2071 likes

#15

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
― Lester Bangs

1324 likes

#16

“My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.”
― Bruno Schulz

982 likes

#17

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, whiskey

2453 likes

#18

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
― Ellen Goodman

tags: forgiveness, gratefulness, love

1811 likes

#19

“I've never wanted a quiet life.”
― Lydia Cacho

854 likes

#20

“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel

tags: happiness, life

1051 likes

#21

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

tags: annoyance, writing

1348 likes

#22

“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
― Cynthia Ozick

1430 likes

#23

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

2023 likes

#24

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness

4281 likes

#25

“Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

810 likes

#26

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald

5877 likes

#27

“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

1599 likes

#28

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

2058 likes

#29

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: books, reading

2494 likes

#30

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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