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  • #1
    Tanith Lee
    “The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.”
    Tanith Lee, Delusion's Master

  • #2
    Tanith Lee
    “The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.”
    Tanith Lee, Death's Master

  • #3
    Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
    “Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #4
    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #6
    Tanith Lee
    “Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.”
    Tanith Lee, Delirium's Mistress

  • #7
    Anna Akhmatova
    “If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
    Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

  • #8
    Bill Watterson
    “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #9
    C.G. Jung
    “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #10
    C.G. Jung
    “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
    C.G. Jung

  • #11
    Robin  Williams
    “You're only given a spark of madness. You musn't lose it.”
    Robin Williams

  • #12
    Howard Mittelmark
    “...This particular blunder is known as deus ex machina, which is French for "Are you fucking kidding me?”
    Howard Mittelmark, How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide

  • #13
    S.E. Hinton
    “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
    S.E. Hinton

  • #14
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • #15
    Italo Calvino
    “Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
    Italo Calvino

  • #16
    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #17
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #18
    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    Albert Camus

  • #19
    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    Albert Camus

  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
    Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

  • #21
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    P.G. Wodehouse

  • #22
    Nawal El Saadawi
    “Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
    Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

  • #23
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #24
    Shelby Foote
    “I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”
    Shelby Foote

  • #25
    “The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.”
    Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #27
    Gore Vidal
    “How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
    Gore Vidal, Julian

  • #28
    Caitlín R. Kiernan
    “Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.”
    Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

  • #29
    “We rightly celebrate the pleasing Newtonian principle that we see further by standing on the shoulders of giants. We are not nearly as good at recognizing that our vantage point can be unstable because those giants may also have been bastards.”
    Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics



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