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  • #1
    Michael Palin
    “You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
    Michael Palin

  • #2
    Paul Theroux
    “Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”
    Paul Theroux

  • #3
    Nigel Slater
    “It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you. ”
    Nigel Slater

  • #4
    Wilkie Collins
    “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #5
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.”
    Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison

  • #6
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"

    "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.”
    Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

  • #7
    Terry Pratchett
    “It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
    Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  • #9
    Terry Pratchett
    “I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #10
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #11
    Anthony  Powell
    “I get a warm feeling among my books.”
    Anthony Powell

  • #12
    Isaac Asimov
    “Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
    Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

  • #13
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #14
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #15
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

  • #16
    Mary Leakey
    “Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
    Mary Leakey

  • #17
    Kate Chopin
    “The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
    Kate Chopin, The Awakening

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

  • #20
    Kate Greenaway
    “Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
    Kate Greenaway

  • #21
    Elizabeth von Arnim
    “What a blessing it is to love books.”
    Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer

  • #22
    George MacDonald
    “Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”
    George Mac Donald, Wilfrid Cumbermede

  • #23
    John Cheever
    “I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
    John Cheever

  • #24
    Erin McKean
    “You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.”
    Erin McKean

  • #25
    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #26
    Hilaire Belloc
    “When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
    Hilaire Belloc

  • #27
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #28
    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #29
    Stephen  King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #30
    Hettie Jones
    “are you breathing, are you lucky enough
    to be breathing”
    Hettie Jones



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