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#1

“A society gets the criminals it deserves.”
― Val MacDermid, Killing the Shadows

tags: crime

#3

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
― Stephen King

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#4

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23584 likes

#5

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

25520 likes

#6

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

78326 likes

#7

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

tags: books, reading, rights

6987 likes

#8

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6458 likes

#9

“Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish.”
― Mark Billingham, Rush of Blood

tags: crime-fiction

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#10

“You decide for yourself when it will hurt.”
― Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses

tags: hurt

119 likes

#11

“A gun is a liar's weapon”
― Frank Miller

tags: batman, frank-miller, graphic-novels

73 likes

#12

“i prefer to die on my feet,than live on my knees”
― Frank Miller, 300

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#13

“A gun is a coward's weapon. A liar's weapon.We kill.. too often.. because we've made it easy.. too easy.. sparing ourselves the mess.. and the work..”
― Frank Miller

tags: batman, comics, cowards, gun, killing

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#14

“When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
[as quoted by Alfred E Neuman]”
― Lou Holtz

tags: comic, mad, not-true

25 likes

#15

“The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. —George Orwell”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

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#16

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: foolishness, gandalf, reductionism, wisdom

1174 likes

#17

“If we just had the time, he thought, and would often say, we could manage these kids as well. All they lacked was time and resources.”
― Kjell Eriksson, The Princess of Burundi

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#18