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  • #1
    Dave Eggers
    “But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”
    Dave Eggers, What Is the What

  • #2
    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    Robert Bloch

  • #3
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #4
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #6
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #7
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #8
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
    Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

  • #10
    Cormac McCarthy
    “I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.”
    Cormac McCarthy

  • #11
    Osip Mandelstam
    “Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.”
    Osip Mandelstam

  • #12
    Osip Mandelstam
    “A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.”
    Osip Mandelstam

  • #13
    Osip Mandelstam
    “Perhaps the whisper was born before lips,
    And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew,
    And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss,
    Acquire their forms before we do”
    Osip Mandelstam



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