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    Alan Bennett
    “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The History Boys
    tags: books, history, 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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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: depression-silence
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Matthew Quick
    “I am practicing being kind over being right.”
    ― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
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    Sylvia Plath
    “What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
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    أحمد مراد
    “أظلم الأوقات في تاريخ الأمم هي الأوقات التي يؤمن فيها الانسان بأن الشر هو الطريق الوحيد للخير”
    ― أحمد مراد, تراب الماس
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    Alan Paton
    “Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
    ― Alan Paton
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    Charles Dickens
    “In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: cowardice, morality, pip
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bounty, conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, inspirational, man, need
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    John Green
    “The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: death, language, life, writing
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    “What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?”
    ― Morrie Schwartz
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: sylvia-plath, ted-hughes, the-bell-jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Ray Bradbury
    “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: reality-bothered
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    Ray Bradbury
    “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: imagination, quality, skill, writers, writing
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: democracy, diversity, minorities
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    Ray Bradbury
    “They all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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