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“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
― Walter Kirn, Mission to America

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town”
― Christina Rossetti

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness