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#1

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

tags: morning, waking-up

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#2

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

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#3

“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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#4

“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

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#5

“If I hold you any closer I'll be in back of you!”
― Groucho Marx

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#6

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

tags: inspirational

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#7

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

tags: humor

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#8

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

tags: childhood, disease, literature

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#9

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

tags: punctuality

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#10

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

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#11

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

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#12

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

tags: crazy, funny, words

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#13

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#14

“A pun is its own reword.”
― Valerie Estelle Frankel

tags: pun

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#15

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

tags: books, reading

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#16

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#17

“The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

tags: friendship, loneliness, sun

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#18

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

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#19

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

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#20

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

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#21

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#22

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

tags: books, humor

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#23

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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#24

“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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#25

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

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#26

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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#27

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

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#28

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

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#29

“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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#30

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: hermione

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