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    Jane Austen
    “Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet
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    Norton Juster
    “... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
    tags: curiosity, education, inspirational, pure-science
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    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Jane Austen
    “My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
    'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: anne-eliot, good-company, jane-austen, persuasion
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenin
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: change, fear-of-change
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    Ayn Rand
    “If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: atlas, shrugged
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    “Children discover and verify their theories in quite the same way that scientists do: through experimentation. They manipulate the world and discover regularities of causation from those manipulations. Why do they do it? The discovery of regularities comes with a pleasurable burst of insight, which all of us, but especially children and scientists, continuously long for like bonbons or opium.”
    ― Matthew M. Hurley Daniel C. Dennet Reginald B. Adams
    tags: cognitive-science, discovery, science
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    Gail Carriger
    “How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.”
    ― Gail Carriger, Soulless
    tags: alexia-tarabotti, brain, humor, thinking
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    Julia Child
    “...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.”
    ― Julia Child, My Life in France
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    Edith Wharton
    “Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.”
    ― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
    tags: fate
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    Truman Capote
    “Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.”
    ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
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    Seth Grahame-Smith
    “Elizabeth: "Your balls, Mr. Darcy?"
    Darcy: "They belong to you, Miss Bennett.”
    ― Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
    tags: humor
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    Jim Butcher
    “Are you always a smartass?'

    Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: humor, impudence, sarcasm, smartass
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    Charles Dickens
    “So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: great-expectations
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    Lisa See
    “I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”
    ― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    tags: life
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    Norton Juster
    “Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...”
    ― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: disgusting, harry-potter, humor, ron-weasley
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    Bryan Lee O'Malley
    “Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.”
    ― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
    tags: books
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    Ray Bradbury
    “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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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
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Clifton Fadiman
    “When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
    ― Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play
    tags: books, classics
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”
    And she sprinted away, up the stairs.
    “What does she understand?” said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to tell where the voice had come from.
    “Loads more than I do,” said Ron, shaking his head.
    “But why’s she got to go to the library?”
    “Because that’s what Hermione does,” said Ron, shrugging. “When in doubt, go to the library.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: hermione, humor, library
    1558 likes

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    Orson Scott Card
    “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: identity, pretend
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    Helene Wecker
    “Sometimes men want what they don't have because they don't have it. Even if everyone offered to share, they would only want the share that wasn't theirs.”
    ― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I have no wish to talk nonsense."
    "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
    tags: books, jane-eyre
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    John Irving
    “I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.”
    ― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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