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    J.M. Coetzee
    “Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
    ― J.M. Coetzee
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
    tags: learning, teachers
    297 likes

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    Ally Carter
    “The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.”
    ― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time
    tags: teachers
    144 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
    51422 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
    45275 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
    17552 likes

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    “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
    164438 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
    24270 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    175350 likes

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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    129602 likes

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    Maurice Switzer
    “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
    44300 likes

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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
    37962 likes

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    Joseph Campbell
    “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
    tags: change, life, open-heart, open-mind, resilience
    3919 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
    34488 likes

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  • #18
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
    26984 likes

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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
    13922 likes

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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
    13072 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
    13333 likes

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  • #22
    “I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: humor, life, sex
    6562 likes

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    George Carlin
    “The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: bad-girls, christmas, santa, santa-claus, sex
    2346 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: education, sex
    2689 likes

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  • #25
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
    73999 likes

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  • #26
    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    ― Annie Proulx
    4624 likes

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    John Green
    “Some people have lives; some people have music.”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: humor, life, music
    5098 likes

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Music is the universal language of mankind.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: music, poetry, power-of-music
    1404 likes

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  • #29
    J.M. Barrie
    “If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
    ― Sir James Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: music
    722 likes

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  • #30
    Ken Robinson
    “If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
    ― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
    tags: creativity, failure, original
    742 likes



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