February 2012
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“An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent...”
– John W. Gardner (1912-2002)
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“Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.”
– Laura Miller (via booksandnerds)
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“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
– A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin)
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“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via thebigbadbooklist)
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“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
– Audrey Hepburn (via lizamazoo)
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“What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”
– Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via to-seekagreatperhaps)
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“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in...”
– Ezra Pound (via wordpainting)
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“What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers,...”
– John Steinbeck
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“You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (via bibliophobic)
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“How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren’t just things but treasured...”
– Laura Jensen Walker (Daring Chloe)
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“You won’t get anything unless you ask for it. Then if you ask for it and you...”
– Amy Sherman
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“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope...”
– David Quammen (via prettybooks)
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“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
– John Steinbeck
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac
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“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must...”
– T. S. Eliot
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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an...”
– Charlotte Bronte
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“We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self...”
– Suzanne Collins
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“Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
– Sylvia Plath
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“Perhaps love cannot live anywhere but books.”
– William Faulkner
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“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
– George Orwell
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“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,...”
– Agatha Christie
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“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are...”
– Gary Provost
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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent,...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
– William Faulkner
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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
– Mother Teresa
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“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. ‘I’m okay’ we say. ‘I’m...”
– Markus Zusak
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“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did...”
– William Wilberforce
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