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  • #1
    “Did you ever see an unhappy horse?
    Did you ever see a bird that had the blues?
    One reason why birds and hoses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”
    Dale Taylor

  • #2
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    W. Somerset Maugham

  • #3
    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    E.L. Doctorow

  • #4
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #5
    Martin Amis
    “Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”
    Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

  • #6
    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    Sir Francis Bacon

  • #7
    Cesare Pavese
    “Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
    Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

  • #8
    China Miéville
    “A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
    China Miéville, King Rat

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #11
    Shel Silverstein
    “Do a loony-goony dance
    'Cross the kitchen floor,
    Put something silly in the world
    That ain't been there before.”
    Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

  • #12
    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    Voltaire

  • #13
    Alan             Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    Alan Moore

  • #14
    “Advice from a Bear: 1 Live Large 2 Climb Beyond Your Limitations 3 When Life Gets Hairy, Grin and Bear It 4 Live With The Seasons 5 Take A Good Long Nap 6 Look After Your Honey!”
    Ilan Shamir

  • #15
    “Adivce from a horse
    Take life's hurdels in stride.
    Loosen the reins.
    Be free sprited.
    Keep the burrs from under your saddle.
    Carry your friends when they need it.
    Keep stable.
    Gallop to greatness.”
    Ilan Shamir, Poettree: The Wilderness I Am

  • #16
    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

  • #17
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

  • #18
    Nicholas Sparks
    “I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
    Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

  • #19
    Stefan Zweig
    “Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
    Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl

  • #20
    Willa Cather
    “The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”
    Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

  • #21
    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

  • #22
    George Saunders
    “Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
    George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

  • #23
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    “The windows of my soul I throw
    Wide open to the sun.”
    John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection

  • #24
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #25
    Charles de Lint
    “Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”
    Charles de Lint, Moonheart

  • #26
    Jennifer Donnelly
    “Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”
    Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

  • #27
    Mortimer J. Adler
    “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
    Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

  • #28
    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #30
    Baltasar Gracián
    “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
    Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle



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