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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: humor, reading
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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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    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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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
    “Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
    ― Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
    tags: classics, humor, satire, vanity
    304 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
    6578 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
    3694 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: illusions, life
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    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers
    3560 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: darkness, human-nature, moon
    3791 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: conscience, humor, memory
    1977 likes

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  • #13
    Marilynne Robinson
    “Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”
    ― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
    tags: life, memory
    291 likes

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  • #14
    John Steinbeck
    “Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat
    53 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: reading-books, reading-habits
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177050 likes

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    Ann Radcliffe
    “A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.”
    ― Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
    tags: liberal-education
    97 likes

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    Michael Dibdin
    “He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.”
    ― Michael Dibdin, Medusa
    29 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151395 likes

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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: reading
    239 likes

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  • #21
    Harper Lee
    “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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  • #22
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    ― Henry Ward Beecherr
    tags: books, humor
    7426 likes

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  • #23
    Heraclitus
    “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -”
    ― Heraclitus
    659 likes

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  • #24
    Dr. Seuss
    “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: adulthood, childhood
    3007 likes

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  • #25
    Miriam Toews
    “She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.”
    ― Miriam Toews
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119058 likes

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    Shirley Jackson
    “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
    tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity
    1306 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
    12032 likes

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  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
    8463 likes

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  • #30
    John Steinbeck
    “I guess there are never enough books.”
    ― John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia
    tags: books, reading, sufficiency
    1113 likes



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