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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

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• Books

Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.

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• Humor

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

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• Inspirational

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

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• Writing

She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

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• Knowledge

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

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• Humor

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

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• Humor

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

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• Love

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

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• Writing

Books were safer than other people anyway.

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• Books

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

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• Humor

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

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• Books

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

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• Life

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

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• Inspirational

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

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• Life