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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Rick Riordan
    “Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: deadlines, humor, procrastinate
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    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    ― Daniel Pennac
    tags: books, reading, rights
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  • #4
    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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  • #5
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: weather
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Everyone's in their own personal coma.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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  • #7
    John Green
    “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    Victoria Schwab
    “There were two kinds of monsters, the kind that hunted the streets and the kind that lived in your head. She could fight the first, but the second was more dangerous. It was always, always, always a step ahead.”
    ― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet
    tags: kate-harker, monsters
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: writing
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: leigh-bardugo, six-of-crows
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  • #11
    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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  • #12
    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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    Yvan Goll
    “Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.”
    ― Iwan Goll
    tags: death, decadence, decay
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  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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  • #15
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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  • #16
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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  • #17
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, self-improvement
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    Ransom Riggs
    “We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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  • #20
    “Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.”
    ― I. M. Pei
    tags: architecture, buildings, i-m-pei, life, mirror, past, place, planning, reflection, society, urban, urban-planning
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  • #21
    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: books, reading
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  • #22
    Pau Casals
    “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..”
    ― Pablo Casals
    tags: art, music, power-of-music
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  • #23
    Woody Guthrie
    “This machine kills fascists.”
    ― Woody Guthrie
    tags: folk-music, guitar, music, power-of-music
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  • #24
    Katherine Neville
    “Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.”
    ― Katherine Neville, The Eight
    tags: music, power-of-music
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  • #25
    Maya Angelou
    “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: music
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  • #26
    Lester Bangs
    “The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
    ― Lester Bangs
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    Oliver Sacks
    “Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.”
    ― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
    tags: abstract, arts, feelings, music, neuroscience
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    Oliver Sacks
    “The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain...Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves.”
    ― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
    tags: musical
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    Oliver Sacks
    “There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability.”
    ― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
    tags: earworms, hypotheses, hypothesis, music, neuroscience, psychology, science, songs, theories
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  • #30
    Austin Kleon
    “when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.”
    ― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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