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#1

“Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

#2

“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: reading

1826 likes

#3

“Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

250 likes

#4

“The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.”
― Lemony Snicket

1926 likes

#5

“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: humor, talking, writers

4823 likes

#6

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

tags: humor-cats-allergies

4301 likes

#7

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27756 likes

#8

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: reading-secrets

3718 likes

#8

“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

2615 likes

#9

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

2477 likes

#10

“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

2186 likes

#11

“Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival

tags: humor-miracles

1581 likes

#12

“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: truth, understanding

1743 likes

#13

“The world is quiet here.”
― Lemony Snicket

1631 likes

#14

“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: library

1468 likes

#15

“It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: wrong

1244 likes

#16

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135805 likes

#17

“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

2667 likes

#18

“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

tags: elegance, occams-razor, simplicity-imagination

620 likes

#19

“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

tags: death, life

442 likes

#20

“I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

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#21

“But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

tags: j-w

274 likes

#23

“If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.”
― Agatha Christie

153 likes

#24

“An appreciative listener is always stimulating.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

tags: listening

167 likes

#25

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

3796 likes

#26

“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: philosophy

1432 likes

#27

“Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life. ”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: time

378 likes

#28

“The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

351 likes

#29

“Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#30

“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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