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  • #1
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

  • #2
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box.”
    Hans Christian Andersen, Top and the Ball
    tags: love

  • #3
    J.M. Barrie
    “Boy, why are you crying?”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #4
    Shel Silverstein
    “If you are a dreamer come in
    If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
    A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
    If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
    For we have some flax golden tales to spin
    Come in!
    Come in!”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #5
    Shel Silverstein
    “Magic
    Sandra’s seen a leprechaun,
    Eddie touched a troll,
    Laurie danced with witches once,
    Charlie found some goblins gold.
    Donald heard a mermaid sing,
    Susy spied an elf,
    But all the magic I have known
    I've had to make myself.”
    Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

  • #7
    Michael Ende
    “Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it? It lives on in Fantastica, deep under earth. There are forgotten dreams stored in many layers. The deeper one digs, the closer they are. All Fantastica rests on a foundation of forgotten dreams.”
    Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

  • #8
    John Steinbeck
    “I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #9
    Michel de Montaigne
    “This, reader, is an honest book...I want to appear in my simple, natural and everyday dress, without strain or artifice; for it is myself that I portray”
    Michel de Montaigne

  • #10
    Michel de Montaigne
    “I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”
    Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

  • #11
    Michel de Montaigne
    “I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”
    Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

  • #12
    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #13
    John Steinbeck
    “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #14
    John Steinbeck
    “People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #15
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

  • #16
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

  • #17
    John Steinbeck
    “No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #18
    J.D. Salinger
    “I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”
    J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

  • #19
    Jane Austen
    “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #20
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
    Ben Franklin

  • #21
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #22
    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #23
    John Steinbeck
    “When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.”
    John Steinbeck



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