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“When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.”
― Adam Young

tags: humor

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“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

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“I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frodo, inspirational

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“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: grief

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