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  • #1
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

  • #3
    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    George S. Patton

  • #4
    José Saramago
    “Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
    Jose Saramago

  • #5
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    “The windows of my soul I throw
    Wide open to the sun.”
    John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection

  • #6
    Dr. Seuss
    “Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
    Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

  • #7
    Ogden Nash
    “Tonight’s December thirty-first,
    Something is about to burst.
    The clock is crouching, dark and small,
    Like a time bomb in the hall.
    Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
    Duck! Here comes another year!”
    Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On

  • #8
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #9
    Alan W. Watts
    “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
    Alan Watts

  • #10
    Carl Sandburg
    “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
    Carl Sandburg

  • #11
    Osip Mandelstam
    “My turn shall also come:
    I sense the spreading of a wing.”
    Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems

  • #12
    Susan Sontag
    “My library is an archive of longings.”
    Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

  • #13
    Julian Barnes
    “This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
    Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

  • #14
    Romain Rolland
    “Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
    Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

  • #15
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
    Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

  • #16
    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
    Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

  • #17
    Walter Mosley
    “A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
    Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

  • #18
    Edward Lear
    “And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
    They danced by the light of the moon.”
    Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

  • #19
    Nelson Mandela
    “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #20
    Lillian Hellman
    “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
    Lillian Hellman

  • #21
    Dave Eggers
    “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
    Dave Eggers

  • #22
    Betty Friedan
    “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
    Betty Friedan

  • #23
    Books. Cats. Life is Good.
    “Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
    Edward Gorey

  • #24
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #25
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #26
    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    Alice Hoffman

  • #27
    Honoré de Balzac
    “All happiness depends on courage and work.”
    Honoré de Balzac

  • #28
    Hal Borland
    “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
    Hal Borland

  • #29
    Louis Adamic
    “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
    Louis Adamic

  • #30
    Orhan Pamuk
    “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
    Orhan Pamuk, The New Life



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