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  • #1
    Wilkie Collins
    “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #2
    Jennifer Crusie
    “If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
    -Gwen Goodnight”
    Jennifer Crusie, Faking It

  • #3
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
    François de La Rochefoucauld

  • #4
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #5
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #6
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #7
    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

  • #8
    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #9
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #10
    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

  • #11
    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    Michael Crichton

  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #13
    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    Henry James

  • #14
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    Henry Ward Beecherr

  • #15
    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #16
    William Wordsworth
    “Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
    Than when we soar.”
    William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814

  • #17
    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    Mae West

  • #18
    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #19
    Nick Hornby
    “The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
    Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

  • #20
    Richard Hughes
    “Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
    Richard Hughes

  • #21
    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #22
    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  • #23
    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

  • #24
    Marcel Proust
    “Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
    Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

  • #25
    Jean Kerr
    “I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.”
    Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines

  • #26
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

  • #27
    Edith Sitwell
    “I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
    Edith Sitwell
    tags: life

  • #28
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

  • #29
    Georges Bataille
    “I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
    Georges Bataille, Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille

  • #30
    Howard Nemerov
    “Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
    Howard Nemerov



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