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  • #1
    Azar Nafisi
    “Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”
    Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

  • #2
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    “Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • #3
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”
    Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.”
    For the soul walks upon all paths.
    The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
    The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #4
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
    Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

  • #5
    Henry David Thoreau
    “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #6
    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

  • #7
    Robert J. Sawyer
    “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
    Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

  • #8
    Maurice Sendak
    “But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go - we’ll eat you up - we love you so!”
    And Max said, “No!”
    The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye.”
    Maurice Sendak

  • #9
    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #10
    Emily Brontë
    “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
    Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

  • #11
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #12
    Albert Camus
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

  • #13
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #14
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #15
    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

  • #16
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
    Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

  • #17
    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    Kobayashi Issa, Poems

  • #18
    Hilary Mantel
    “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
    Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

  • #19
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
    Thomas Pynchon

  • #20
    Margaret Wise Brown
    “Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
    Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

  • #21
    Orhan Pamuk
    “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
    Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

  • #22
    Maurice Sendak
    “A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
    Maurice Sendak

  • #23
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #24
    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
    Ernesto Guevara

  • #25
    Charles Eames
    “Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
    Charles Eames

  • #26
    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    Anne Frank

  • #27
    Lucille Clifton
    “may you kiss
    the wind then turn from it
    certain that it will
    love your back”
    Lucille Clifton

  • #28
    Edith Wharton
    “My little old dog
    a heart-beat
    at my feet”
    Edith Wharton

  • #29
    M.F.K. Fisher
    “Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
    M.F.K. Fisher
    tags: egg, food

  • #30
    George Bernard Shaw
    “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
    George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah



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