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  • #1
    Steve Jobs
    “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
    ― Steve Jobs

  • #2
    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain

  • #4
    Ann Patchett
    “It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
    ― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

  • #5
    Francis Bacon
    “If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
    ― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

  • #6
    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, Valis

  • #7
    Jasper Fforde
    “If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

  • #8
    Judy Blume
    “My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
    ― Judy Blume

  • #9
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #10
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #11
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  • #12
    Flannery O'Connor
    “She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor

  • #13
    Norman Mailer
    “Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
    ― Norman Mailer

  • #14
    Eugene O'Neill
    “I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
    ― Eugene O'Neill

  • #15
    Donald E. Westlake
    “Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
    ― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much!

  • #16
    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    ― Annie Proulx

  • #17
    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    ― John Locke

  • #18
    Jude Deveraux
    “Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
    ― Jude Deveraux

  • #19
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    “My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
    ― Ashleigh Brilliant

  • #20
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren

  • #21
    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

  • #22
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

  • #23
    Neil Jordan
    “Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
    ― Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast

  • #24
    C.J. Cherryh
    “Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
    ― C. J. Cherryh



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