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  • #1
    Studs Terkel
    “Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
    Studs Terkel

  • #2
    George Orwell
    “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
    George Orwell

  • #3
    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

  • #4
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
    Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare

  • #5
    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

  • #6
    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    Coco Chanel

  • #7
    Alan Bennett
    “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
    Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

  • #8
    Anne Lamott
    “Joy is the best makeup.”
    Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

  • #9
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #10
    Jean de La Bruyère
    “Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
    Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères

  • #11
    J.D. Salinger
    “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #12
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #13
    Arundhati Roy
    “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
    Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

  • #15
    Gertrude Stein
    “We are always the same age inside. ”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #16
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #17
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #18
    Adrienne Rich
    “There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #19
    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    Anne Frank

  • #20
    Harper Lee
    “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #21
    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #22
    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    Annie Proulx

  • #23
    Kiran Desai
    “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
    Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

  • #24
    Boris Pasternak
    “I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
    Boris Pasternak

  • #25
    Doris Lessing
    “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
    Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

  • #26
    Margaret Atwood
    “A word after a word after a word is power.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #27
    Bill Nye
    “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
    Bill Nye

  • #28
    Heinrich Heine
    “Where words leave off, music begins.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #29
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #30
    Stendhal
    “One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
    Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal



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