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    George Bernard Shaw
    “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
    tags: inspirational
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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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    William Wordsworth
    “Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
    Than when we soar.”
    ― William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814
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    Richard Hughes
    “Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
    ― Richard Hughes
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte
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    John Cheever
    “I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
    ― John Cheever
    tags: readers-and-writers
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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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    Alexander Pope
    “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
    tags: love
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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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    Irving Stone
    “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
    ― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
    tags: books, friendship
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress
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    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
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    Martin Amis
    “Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”
    ― Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007
    tags: love
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    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
    tags: intelligence, mind, poverty
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    François Mauriac
    “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
    ― Francois Mauriac
    tags: books, literacy, reading
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    George Burns
    “If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
    ― George Burns
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    Richard Wright
    “I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
    tags: echo, words
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    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Logan Pearsall Smith
    tags: life, reading
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    Agatha Christie
    “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
    tags: impossible
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    Ken Kesey
    “It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
    ― Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale
    tags: enlightenment, existence
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
    ― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims
    tags: love
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts".....Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: land
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: rhett-butler-to-scarlett
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: society, uniqueness
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    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness
    3191 likes



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