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#1

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

#2

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#3

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

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#4

“I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: reading

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#5

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

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#6

“Numbers constitute the only universal language.”
― Nathanael West

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#7

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

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#8

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

tags: books, imagination, writing

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#9

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

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#10

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

tags: truth

2066 likes

#11

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

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#12

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: eating-reading

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#13

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: books, reading

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#14

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading, writing

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#15

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard

tags: imagination, immortality

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#16

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

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#17

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspiration

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#18

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, dragons, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, fairies, faith, mythology, nightmares, reality, truth

8597 likes

#19

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

tags: inspirational, life

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#20

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

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#21

“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

tags: hunger

1368 likes

#22

“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel

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#23

“Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
― Charles Lamb

tags: new-years

1033 likes

#24

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

tags: normalcy

1868 likes

#25

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#26

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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#27

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism

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#28

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

tags: hope

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#29

“London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: contentment, home, hometown, new-york-city, new-yorker, optimism

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#30

“Nothing burns like the cold.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: burn, cold, winter

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