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#1

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#2

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#3

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#4

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#5

“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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#6

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#7

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#8

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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#9

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#10

“أسوء تعذيب فى العالم هو الشخص المُصر على الكلام بينما أنت مُثقل بالهموم , ترغب فى أن تبقى صامتاً وأن تصغى لأفكارك.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

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#11

“الحل الوحيد للمشاكل النفسية هو: لا تكن عاطلاً… لا تكن وحيداً”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

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#12

“فى حياة كل منا أشياء ثمينة جدًا، لكنها تجعل الآخرين يتهموننا بالتفاهة أو الضحالة أو الجنون إذا عرفوا بها، و نتهمهم نحن بالغباء و تبلد المشاعر عندما يبدون سخريتهم.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

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#13

“أن تكون مترجماً مهماً أفضل من أن تكون روائياً سيئاً”
― صالح علماني

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#14

“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts

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#15

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

tags: improbability, life

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#16

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica

tags: books, censorship, ideas, intellect

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#17

“القراءة وحدها هي التي تُعطي الإنسان الواحد أكثر من حياة واحدة؛ لأنها تزيد هذه الحياة عمقاً، وإن كانت لا تطيلها بمقدار الحساب”
― عباس محمود العقاد

tags: قراءة

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#18

“نحن لا ننتخب حكامنا و لا نختارهم و لكنهم يحطون على رؤوسنا كما المصيبة ,,و ينزلون بنا كما الكارثة ,, و يجلسون على الكراسي كما المآسي و لا فكاك منهم الا بعمك المنقذ عزرائيل”
― محمود السعدني, حمار من الشرق

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#19

“So okay― there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#20

“I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#21

“Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#22

“I even love the smell of books.”
― Adriana Trigiani

tags: books, reading

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#23

“A good mother is irreplaceable.”
― Adriana Trigiani

tags: mothers

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#24

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#25

“Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#26

“إنه الخلط المعتاد في مجتمعنا حينما يفترض أن المتفوق في دراسته مثقف حاد البصيرة كذلك.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, لست وحدك

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#27

“الجوع يتغذى على الخوف / خوف الصمت يدوي في الشوارع / الخوف يهدد:/ إذا أحببت ، تصاب بالإيدز / إذا دخنت ، تصب بالسرطان / إذا تنفست ، تتلوث / إذا شربت ، تحصل على حوادث / إذا أكلت ، ترتفع فيك نسبة الكولسترول / إذا عبرت عن نفسك ، تسرح ، إذا سرت ، تسرق / إذا فكرت ، تقلق / إذا شككت ، تجن / إذا شعرت ، تعاني من الوحدة”
― إدواردو غاليانو

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#28

“المشكلة يا ولد أن قادتنا كانوا أصغر منا، كنا أكبر و أعفى و أقدر لكنهم كانوا القادة، انكسروا فانكسرنا”
― رضوى عاشور, ثلاثية غرناطة

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#29

“بُلينا بقوم يظنون أن الله لم يهد سواهم.”
― ابن سينا

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#30

“قال لي سالم بيه: "أنت تقرأ كثيرا..أنت مجنون!" .. قلت له إن القراءة بالنسبة لي نوع رخيص من المخدرات. لا أفعل بها شيئاً سوى الغياب عن الوعي. في الماضي -تصور هذا- كانوا يقرءون من أجل إكتساب الوعي ! ..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

tags: قراءة

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