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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“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

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
― Jimi Hendrix

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
― Confucius

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
― Stephen Hawking

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
― George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

“Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”
― Joss Whedon

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
― Woody Allen

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”
― Scott Adams

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
― George Carlin

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde