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“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
― Anatole France

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“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

“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
― John Waters

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

“Why did you betray your own heart Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. ... You loved me - then what right had you to leave me? Because ... nothing God or satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - oh God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave? [...] I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?”
― Emily Brontë

“...if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom...”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.”
― David Levien, City of the Sun

“I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?'
'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.”
― Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, 1959-1960

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
― Victor Hugo

“It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
― John Waters

“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
― Woody Allen

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!

(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
― Russell T. Davies

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”
― Fiona Apple

“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”
― viggo mortensen

“I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog.”
― Jim Benton

“I love letters from little kids. Adults never proclaim themselves 'your #1 fan!”
― Lauren Baratz-Logsted

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Life is made up of many comings and goings and for everything that we take with us,we must leave something behind”
― Herman Raucher, Summer of '42