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“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“I will drink life to the lees.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir

“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
― Nellie Bly

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“What a long strange trip it's been.”
― Jerry Garcia

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
― Steve Martin

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance