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  • #1
    Betty Friedan
    “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
    Betty Friedan

  • #2
    Harper Lee
    “Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #3
    Harper Lee
    “But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest JP court in the land, or this honourable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #4
    Harper Lee
    “Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #5
    Harper Lee
    “I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #6
    Harper Lee
    “Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #7
    Harper Lee
    “You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
    Harper Lee

  • #8
    Harper Lee
    “There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #9
    Harper Lee
    “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #11
    Stephen  King
    “Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.”
    Stephen King, The Green Mile

  • #12
    Stephen  King
    “I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.”
    Stephen King, The Green Mile

  • #13
    Stephen  King
    “He killed them with their love”
    Stephen King, The Green Mile

  • #14
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #15
    Heinrich Heine
    “Where words leave off, music begins.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #16
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #17
    Mary Higgins Clark
    “Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
    Mary Higgins Clark, Loves Music, Loves to Dance

  • #18
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #19
    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

  • #20
    William Congreve
    “Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
    William Congreve

  • #21
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #22
    Roald Dahl
    “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

    A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
    Roald Dahl, The Twits

  • #23
    Steve Wozniak
    “If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
    Steve Wozniak

  • #24
    Mindy Kaling
    “There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
    Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

  • #25
    Mindy Kaling
    “One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”
    Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

  • #26
    Mindy Kaling
    “You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it’s acid in the face—who will love them now?”
    Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

  • #27
    Mindy Kaling
    “It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.”
    Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

  • #28
    J.B. Priestley
    “We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.”
    J.B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls

  • #29
    L. Frank Baum
    “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

  • #30
    Pablo Neruda
    “Tonight I can write the saddest lines
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair



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