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  • #1
    R.A. Salvatore
    “It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
    R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn

  • #2
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #3
    Mario Benedetti
    “Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.”
    Mario Benedetti

  • #4
    Mario Benedetti
    “El Olvido está lleno de Memoria”
    Mario Benedetti, El olvido está lleno de memoria

  • #5
    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    George S. Patton

  • #6
    Whitney Otto
    “If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine and not an avenue of expression, then he has no business asking anyone for anything, let alone their time and interest. Don't show the world, he said, invent the world.”
    Whitney Otto, Eight Girls Taking Pictures

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    Gertrude Stein
    “We are always the same age inside. ”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #10
    Dave Eggers
    “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
    Dave Eggers

  • #11
    Sylvia Townsend Warner
    “It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
    Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

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

  • #13
    Charles Darwin
    “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
    Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

  • #14
    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    Tina Fey, Bossypants

  • #15
    Gary Paulsen
    “If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
    The book needs you.”
    Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

  • #16
    Thor Heyerdahl
    “Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
    Thor Heyerdahl

  • #17
    Jorge Amado
    “The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
    Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

  • #18
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #19
    Janet Frame
    “There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
    Janet Frame

  • #20
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    “Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
    Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

  • #21
    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    Annie Proulx

  • #22
    Tom Perrotta
    “He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
    Tom Perrotta, Joe College

  • #23
    Eugene Field
    “No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
    Eugene Field

  • #24
    Margaret Landon
    “She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
    Margaret Landon

  • #25
    Anna Deavere Smith
    “Each person has a literature inside them.”
    Anna Deavere Smith

  • #26
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

  • #27
    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    Euripides, The Bacchae

  • #28
    Fannie Flagg
    “Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
    Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

  • #29
    Jude Deveraux
    “Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
    Jude Deveraux

  • #30
    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    Confucius



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