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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: cynical, life, truth
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    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
    ― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
    tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth
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    Thomas Merton
    “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
    ― Thomas Merton, Love and Living
    tags: connection, destiny, fate, life, love, meaning
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    James Boswell
    “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.”
    ― James Boswell
    tags: frienship, heart, kindness
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: childhood, happiness
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Books were safer than other people anyway.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: book-lovers, book-quotes, books, bookworms, love-for-books
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: inside, looks, people, true-nature
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    Veronica Roth
    “Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other”
    ― Veronica Roth
    tags: hope, inspirational, pain
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    Christopher Morley
    “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
    ― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls
    tags: bibliophilia, books
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    Christopher Morley
    “Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
    ― Christopher Morley
    tags: do, morley, read, think
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    Christopher Morley
    “When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.”
    ― Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Mary Oliver
    “You may not agree, you may not care, but
    if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.”
    ― Mary Oliver, Dog Songs: Poems
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
    tags: edward
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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
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    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    George R.R. Martin
    “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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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    ― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
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    Maria Semple
    “That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.”
    ― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette
    tags: boredom
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    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
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    Alan M. Turing
    “Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
    ― Alan Turing
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us,” the passage goes, “but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “The words you can’t find, you borrow.
    We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
    My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.
    We are not quite novels.
    The analogy he is looking for is almost there.
    We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.
    In the end, we are collected works.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
    tags: we-are-what-we-read
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    Jen Campbell
    “bookshops are
    time machines
    spaceships
    story-makers
    secret-keepers
    dragon-tamers
    dream-catchers
    fact-finders
    & safe places.

    (this book is for those who know this to be true)”
    ― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book
    tags: bookshops, dedications, time-machines
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    Jen Campbell
    “Because whether we're in the middle of the desert or in the heart of a city, or the top of a mountain or on an underground train: having good stories to keep us company means the whole world.”
    ― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book
    tags: bookshops, bookstores
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    Kakuzō Okakura
    “Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.”
    ― Okakura Kakuzo
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    Kakuzō Okakura
    “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
    ― Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea
    tags: japan, lifestyle
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