2026 Reading Challenge

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  • #1
    Plutarch
    “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
    ― Plutarch
    tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight To Arras
    tags: life, philosophy
    647 likes

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  • #3
    John Ajvide Lindqvist
    “It is impossible to say why we love something or someone. We can come up with reasons if we have to, but the important part happens in the dark, beyond our control. We just know when it is there. And when it goes away.”
    ― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Little Star
    tags: love-and-loss
    39 likes

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  • #4
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: inspiration
    4196 likes

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  • #5
    John Steinbeck
    “And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: country-life, human-nature
    209 likes

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  • #6
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
    9727 likes

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  • #7
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109283 likes

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  • #8
    Tom Clancy
    “The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
    ― Tom Clancy
    tags: read
    1449 likes

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  • #9
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    344 likes

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  • #10
    Joel Salatin
    “The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.”
    ― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
    tags: farming, food, gardening, gardens, supermarkets
    100 likes

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  • #11
    Lemony Snicket
    “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
    13155 likes

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  • #12
    Alan Greenspan
    “I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
    ― Alan Greenspan
    tags: double-talk
    186 likes

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  • #13
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
    37983 likes

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  • #14
    James Herriot
    “A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.”
    ― James Herriot
    183 likes

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  • #15
    David McCullough
    “To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."

    [The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
    ― David McCullough
    274 likes

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  • #16
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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  • #17
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
    7576 likes

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  • #18
    Maya Angelou
    “When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    1200 likes

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  • #19
    Edith Wharton
    “My little old dog
    a heart-beat
    at my feet”
    ― Edith Wharton
    1087 likes

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  • #20
    Nelson Mandela
    “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
    2910 likes

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  • #21
    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: friendship
    7666 likes

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  • #22
    Shel Silverstein
    “Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: comfort, freedom, important-things-in-life, leaving
    16 likes

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  • #23
    Laurence Cossé
    “We have no time to waste on insignificant books, hollow books, books that are there to please...

    We want books that cost their authors a great deal, books where you can feel the years of work, the backache, the writer's block, the author's panic at the thought that he might be lost: his discouragement, his courage, his anguish, his stubbornness, the risk of failure that he has taken.”
    ― Laurence Cossé, A Novel Bookstore
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
    20 likes

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  • #24
    Michael Pollan
    “You are what what you eat eats.”
    ― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
    tags: eating, food
    783 likes

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  • #25
    Michael Pollan
    “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
    ― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
    tags: diet, eating, food, omnivore, plants
    659 likes

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  • #26
    Langston Hughes
    “Folks, I'm telling you,
    birthing is hard
    and dying is mean-
    so get yourself
    a little loving
    in between.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    376 likes

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  • #27
    Shannon Hale
    “I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.”
    ― Shannon Hale
    tags: laughing
    1912 likes

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  • #28
    Valérie Perrin
    “It’s a luxury to be the owner of one’s time. I think it’s one of the greatest luxuries human beings can afford themselves.”
    ― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers
    61 likes

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  • #29
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
    6600 likes

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  • #30
    Sinclair Lewis
    “We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
    ― Sinclair Lewis
    2318 likes



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