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#1

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
― Carrie Fisher

tags: envy, jealousy, resentment, spite

#2

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”
― Nelson Mandela

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#3

“We forget we're
mostly water
till the rain falls
and every atom
in our body
starts to go home”
― Albert Huffstickler

tags: albert-huffstickler, lilliput-review

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#4

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

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#5

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#6

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

tags: books, humor

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#7

“It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

170 likes

#8

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics

9100 likes

#9

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

tags: hope, light

3039 likes

#10

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

5369 likes

#11

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday

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#12

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

13923 likes

#13

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

18228 likes

#14

“My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.”
― Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road

tags: books, library

782 likes

#15

“When I look into the eyes of an animal, I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.”
― Anthony Douglas Williams

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#16

“To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.”
― Roger Deakin, Wildwood: A Journey through Trees

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#17

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, imagination

24679 likes

#18

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

91994 likes

#19

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

40966 likes

#20

“I read not because I don't have a life, but because I choose to have many.”
― Anonymous

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#21

“The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

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#22

“...These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional “victims” who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.”
― Gad Saad

tags: anti-pc, language, language-police, liberalism, pc, political-correctness, victim-mentality, word-police

46 likes

#23

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, for all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see”
― John Burroughs

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#24

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books, intelligence, wisdom

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