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  • #1
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

  • #2
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
    Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

  • #5
    Robert Benchley
    “The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”
    Robert Benchley, My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

  • #6
    H.G. Wells
    “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
    H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

  • #7
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

  • #8
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

  • #9
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

  • #10
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

  • #11
    John Steinbeck
    “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #12
    Diane Duane
    “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
    Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

  • #13
    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    Desmond Tutu

  • #14
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
    Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
    John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

  • #17
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

  • #18
    Doris Lessing
    “Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
    Doris Lessing

  • #19
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #20
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains

  • #21
    Thomas Babington Macaulay
    “If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces and gardens, and fine dinners, and wine and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.”
    Thomas Babington Macaulay

  • #22
    Thomas Babington Macaulay
    “The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
    Thomas Macaulay

  • #23
    Napoleon Hill
    “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
    Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

  • #24
    Jean Giraudoux
    “Only the mediocre are always at their best. ”
    Jean Giraudoux

  • #25
    Zig Ziglar
    “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
    Zig Ziglar

  • #26
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #27
    Howard Nemerov
    “Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
    Howard Nemerov

  • #28
    Howard Nemerov
    “Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow`s speed.”
    Howard Nemerov

  • #29
    Howard Nemerov
    “I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.”
    Howard Nemerov

  • #30
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign



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