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  • #1
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

  • #2
    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

  • #3
    Robert Browning
    “Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
    Or what's a heaven for?”
    Robert Browning, Men and Women and Other Poems

  • #4
    “Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.”
    Thomas Bartholin
    tags: books

  • #5
    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    Kobayashi Issa, Poems

  • #6
    Toni Bernhard
    “Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.”
    Toni Bernhard, How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers

  • #7
    Rafael Sabatini
    “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
    Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

  • #8
    Hilary Mantel
    “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
    Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”
    Jelaluddin Rumi

  • #10
    China Miéville
    “Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.”
    China Miéville, Embassytown

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan



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