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    Glen Cook
    “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.
    “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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    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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    Groucho Marx
    “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
    Groucho Marx
    “If I hold you any closer I'll be in back of you!”
    ― Groucho Marx
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    Dr. Seuss
    “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
    Mark Twain
    “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
    Jane Yolen
    “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
    Evelyn Waugh
    “Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh
    tags: punctuality
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  • #10
    Shelby Foote
    “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
    ― Shelby Foote
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  • #11
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “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
    Roald Dahl
    “Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The BFG
    tags: crazy, funny, words
    1963 likes

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  • #13
    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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  • #14
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    “A pun is its own reword.”
    ― Valerie Estelle Frankel
    tags: pun
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  • #15
    Diane Duane
    “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
    Stephen King
    “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
    9100 likes

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  • #17
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    “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.
    “Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
    ― Edward Gorey
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  • #19
    Lemony Snicket
    “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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    Marguerite Duras
    “Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
    ― Marguerite Duras
    tags: mothers
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  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177047 likes

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  • #22
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #23
    Maurice Switzer
    “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
    44321 likes

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  • #24
    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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  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #26
    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
    35269 likes

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  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
    37390 likes

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  • #28
    Charles M. Schulz
    “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
    “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
    J.K. Rowling
    “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
    13651 likes



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