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    Germaine Greer
    “A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
    ― Germaine Greer
    tags: innocence, libraries, reading, sexuality, virginity
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    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
    “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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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
    22060 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    Charles William Eliot
    “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
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    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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    Christopher Paolini
    “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: books, christopher-paolini, eragon, good-reads
    6287 likes

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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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    Stephen King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
    tags: love, romance
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    Albert Camus
    “You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Fall
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    Candace Bushnell
    “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
    tags: love, relationships
    6310 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: assuming, blaming, branding, communication, denying-feelings, dishonorable, facts, fear, gossiping, guessing, hurting-people, hypocrisy, ignoring, judgement, lack-of-communication, male-ego, not-caring, not-knowing, opinionated, overthinking, paranoia, saddness, truthfullness
    127 likes

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    John Churton Collins
    “If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.”
    ― John Churton Collins
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    Maya Angelou
    “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: 1997, annie-clark-tanner-lecture
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    “Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re angry? When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive.”
    ― Christopher Pike, Remember Me
    tags: relationships, trust
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    E.B. White
    “A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."

    [Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
    ― E.B. White
    tags: books, comfort, company, encouragement, libraries, reading, solace
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    Bill Watterson
    “I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: friends
    1684 likes

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    Jim Henson
    “There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”
    ― Jim Henson, Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets
    tags: friends, friendship
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
    tags: aids, bj, blow-job, church, cunnilingus, dignity, dignity-of-women, dignity-quotes, essay, essays, fake, family, family-planning, fellatio, health, hiv, hiv-aids, hiv-and-aids, humor, humour, hymen, marriage, masturbate, masturbation, onanism, orgasm, orgasms, parents, pleasure, pretense, pride, relationships, religion, saire, self-abuse, self-love, sex, sexuality, sexy-humor, virgin, virginity, vows, wedding
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    Elizabeth Hardwick
    “There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.”
    ― Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal
    tags: virginity, writing, wuthering-heights
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    Carmen Maria Machado
    “Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness.”
    ― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: desire, loneliness, love, lust, passion, sex
    2478 likes



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