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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: wordplay
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    Rebecca West
    “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.”
    ― Rebecca West, The Young Rebecca: Writings, 1911-1917
    tags: clichés, empowerment, feminism, opinions, women, womens-liberation
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
    Death thought about it.
    CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
    tags: cats, death, life
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    Jane Austen
    “An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: choice, husbands, marriage, parents, proposals
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Willy Russell
    “FRANK: Do you know Yeats?
    RITA: The wine lodge?
    FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet.
    RITA: No.
    FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance.
    RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.”
    ― Willy Russell, Educating Rita
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    Ogden Nash
    “The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.”
    ― Ogden Nash, Free Wheeling
    tags: bovine, cow, cows, milk, moo
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    “Reality,' sa molesworth 2, 'is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder'.”
    ― Geoffrey Willans, Whizz for Atomms
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    William Shakespeare
    “Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: ferocity
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    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
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    George Orwell
    “You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,’ he told her.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: rebel, waist
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    A.A. Milne
    “One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: discovery, eccentric, life
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    William Morris
    “If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
    ― William Morris
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    Edith Wharton
    “Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”
    ― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
    tags: books, money, rich
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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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    Dodie Smith
    “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: baths, deeds, depression
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    John Buchan
    “I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.”
    ― John Buchan, The 39 Steps
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    Edith Wharton
    “It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.”
    ― Edith Wharton
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    Daphne du Maurier
    “Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
    ― Daphne du Maurier
    tags: writing
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    Sue Townsend
    “Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.”
    ― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
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    J.B.S. Haldane
    “If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.”
    ― J.B.S. Haldane
    tags: creation
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  • #30
    Books. Cats. Life is Good.
    “Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
    ― Edward Gorey
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