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I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now...more

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Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how th...more

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Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?

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Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

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Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I...more

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Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

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Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than b...more

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I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable ...more

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Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in book...more

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Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

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Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be no humans left to benefi...more

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(I didn’t tell him that thediagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)

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Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.

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This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch...more

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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the ...more