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#1

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

#2

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23097 likes

#3

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
― Henry Adams

887 likes

#4

“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.”
― David Lodge

tags: life

43 likes

#5

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

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#6

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: books, reading

4672 likes

#7

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

tags: desk, viewpoint

1649 likes

#8

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

5892 likes

#9

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

18124 likes

#10

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

2613 likes

#11

“To write is human, to edit is divine.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: inspirational

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#12

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

20232 likes

#13

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11251 likes

#14

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

3196 likes

#15

“Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: marketing, women

1451 likes

#16

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

1608 likes

#17

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

4321 likes

#18

“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"

[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
― Lemmy Kilmister

tags: books, films, imagination, lemmy-kilmister, movies, reading, vision

363 likes

#19

“Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

1171 likes

#20

“I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

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#21

“They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially ‘colonised’ it. So technically, I colonised Mars.
In your face, Neil Armstrong!”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

tags: colonised, mars, neil-armstrong

431 likes

#22

“The screen went black before I was out of the airlock. Turns out the “L” in “LCD” stands for “Liquid.” I guess it either froze or boiled off. Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

299 likes

#23

“I'm calling it the Watney Triangle because after what I've been through, shit on Mars should be named after me.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

tags: funny, humor

312 likes

#24

“My asshole is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

273 likes

#25

“Everything went great right up to the explosion.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

305 likes

#26

“Live Another Sol would be an awesome name for a James Bond movie.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

222 likes

#27

“Gay probe coming to save me. Got it.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

194 likes

#28

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: books, fiction

2195 likes

#29

“Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”
― Douglas Adams

tags: books, digital-age, ebooks, ereaders, fiction, kindle, kobo, nook, print, print-books

145 likes

#30

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

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