#paraphrase

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian. ↗

— Joan Bauer

#libraries #paraphrased #library

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#on-writing #paraphrased #inspirational

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death! ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#education #free-speech #paraphrased #death

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#paraphrased #humor

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there ↗

— George Harrison

#paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll #life

Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it." quote from Tara Daniels ↗

— Jill Shalvis

#life

The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining. ↗

— Tracy Thompson

#life

It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then. ↗

— Julie James

#paraphrased #love

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#men

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#plot #parenting