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    Roger Zelazny
    “I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber
    tags: libraries, libraries-shadows, security, words
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    Roger Zelazny
    “Nobody steals books but your friends.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon
    tags: books, friendship, inspirational, irony, stealing
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    Roger Zelazny
    “There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.”
    ― Roger Zelazny, The Great Book of Amber
    tags: civilization, culture, war
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
    tags: happiness, sadness
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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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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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, fear
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Ken Robinson
    “Creativity is as important as literacy”
    ― Ken Robinson
    tags: creativity, ken-robinson, school-system, ted-talks
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    Ken Robinson
    “The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.”
    ― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
    tags: education
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    Ken Robinson
    “If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
    ― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
    tags: creativity, failure, original
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    Ken Robinson
    “I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.”
    ― Ken Robinson
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: books
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: bible, death, enemy
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    Beka Adamashvili
    “ცხოვრება მეცხრე სართულზე გადმოსული ადამიანის პიანინოს ჰგავს -მძიმეა,მაგრამ უნდა აიტანო”
    ― Beka Adamashvili, ბესტსელერი
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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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
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: friendship, insincerity, manners
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  • #23
    I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
    “I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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    J.D. Salinger
    “People are always ruining things for you.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden
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    J.D. Salinger
    “when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: humor
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    J.D. Salinger
    “People never notice anything.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: holden, obliviousness
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  • #27
    J.D. Salinger
    “Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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    J.D. Salinger
    “And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
    tags: ambivalence, confusion, grief, happiness
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: mood, sarcasm, sarcastic
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