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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero
    "A room without books is like a body without a soul."
    — Marcus Tullius Cicero


  • Douglas Adams
    "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
    — Douglas Adams


  • Oscar Wilde
    "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
    — Oscar Wilde


  • Oscar Wilde
    "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
    — Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)


  • Douglas Adams
    "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
    — Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)


  • Albert Einstein
    "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
    — Albert Einstein


  • Elie Wiesel
    "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
    — Elie Wiesel


  • Mark Twain
    "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
    — Mark Twain


  • Albert Einstein
    "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
    — Albert Einstein


  • Dr. Seuss
    "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
    — Dr. Seuss


  • Kelly Link
    "I don't know about you, but I'm kind of fed up with realism. After all, there's enough reality already; why make more of it? Why not leave realism for the memoirs of drug addicts, the histories of salt, the biographies of porn stars? Why must we continue to read about the travails of divorced people or mildly depressed Canadians when we could be contemplating the shopping habits of zombies, or the difficulties that ensue when living and dead people marry each other? We should be demanding more stories about faery handbags and pyjamas inscribed with the diaries of strange women. We should not rest until someone writes about a television show that features the Free People's World-Tree Library, with its elaborate waterfalls and Forbidden Books and Pirate-Magicians. We should be pining for a house haunted by rabbits."
    — Kelly Link


  • Neil Gaiman
    "Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you."
    — Neil Gaiman


  • Neil Gaiman
    "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."
    — Neil Gaiman


  • Neil Gaiman
    "Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
    — Neil Gaiman


  • G.K. Chesterton
    "Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
    — G.K. Chesterton


  • Neil Gaiman
    "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."
    — Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)


  • Neal Stephenson
    "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
    — Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon)


  • Neal Stephenson
    "I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo."
    — Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash)


  • Isaac Asimov
    "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
    — Isaac Asimov


  • Isaac Asimov
    "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
    — Isaac Asimov


  • Isaac Asimov
    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'"
    — Isaac Asimov


  • Isaac Asimov
    "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
    — Isaac Asimov


  • Isaac Asimov
    "Tell me why the stars do shine,
    Tell me why the ivy twines,
    Tell me what makes skies so blue,
    And I'll tell you why I love you.

    Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,
    Tropisms make the ivy twine,
    Raleigh scattering make skies so blue,
    Testicular hormones are why I love you. "
    — Isaac Asimov


  • Isaac Asimov
    "I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."
    — Isaac Asimov (I, Asimov: A Memoir)


  • "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

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    — Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)


  • Isaac Asimov
    "Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
    — Isaac Asimov


  • Isaac Asimov
    "I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."
    — Isaac Asimov


  • Isaac Asimov
    "But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness."
    — Isaac Asimov (I, Asimov: A Memoir)


  • Isaac Asimov
    "Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
    — Isaac Asimov


  • Isaac Asimov
    "[A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery."
    — Isaac Asimov (Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos)


  • Isaac Asimov
    "It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be...
      This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking."
    — Isaac Asimov (Asimov on Science Fiction)


  • Isaac Asimov
    "Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."
    — Isaac Asimov


  • Isaac Asimov
    "There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save."
    — Isaac Asimov (Pebble in the Sky)


  • Isaac Asimov
    "One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason."
    — Isaac Asimov (Pebble in the Sky)


  • Isaac Asimov
    "Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. "
    — Isaac Asimov


  • Isaac Asimov
    "It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?"
    — Isaac Asimov (I, Robot)


  • C.S. Lewis
    "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • C.S. Lewis
    "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
    — C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)


  • C.S. Lewis
    "(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • C.S. Lewis
    "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • C.S. Lewis
    "A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • C.S. Lewis
    "Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
    — C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)


  • C.S. Lewis
    "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • C.S. Lewis
    "God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • C.S. Lewis
    "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • C.S. Lewis
    "I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • C.S. Lewis
    "The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. "
    — C.S. Lewis


  • C.S. Lewis
    "I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • C.S. Lewis
    "I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • C.S. Lewis
    "You can make anything by writing."
    — C.S. Lewis



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