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  • #1
    J.K. Rowling
    “And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #2
    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “Tu, tu che non vuoi ch'io mi renda conto della tua posizione, e hai la vanità di mantenere a me la mia; tu che, conservandomi il lusso nel quale vivevo, conservi la distanza morale che ci separa; tu, infine, che non giudichi il mio affetto abbastanza disinteressato per dividere con me quello che possiedi, e basterebbe a vivere insieme felici, mentre preferisci rovinarti, schiavo di un pregiudizio ridicolo. E credi tu davvero ch'io possa paragonare una carrozza e alcuni gioielli col tuo amore? E che il mio bene consista in vanità che accontentano quando non si ha amore per nulla, ma diventano subito meschine quando si ama? Tu pagherai i miei debiti, impegnerai il tuo patrimonio e insomma mi manterrai! Quanto potrà durare tutto ciò? Due o tre mesi, e sarà troppo tardi allora vivere come ti propongo, perché allora tu dovrai accettare tutto da me, ciò che un gentiluomo non può fare. Oggi invece, con i tuoi otto o diecimila franchi di rendita, possiamo vivere. Io venderò il mio superfluo, e da questa sola vendita ricaverò duemila franchi di reddito. Affitteremo un bell'appartamento per tutti e due. L'estate andremo in campagna, non in una casa con questa, ma in una casetta che basti a due persone. Tu sei indipendente, io libera, e siamo giovani: in nome di Dio, Armando, non ricacciarmi nella vita che fui costretta a condurre un giorno.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

  • #3
    Katherine Mansfield
    “The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
    ― Katherine Mansfield

  • #4
    Nathanael West
    “Numbers constitute the only universal language.”
    ― Nathanael West

  • #5
    Rick Moody
    “I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
    ― Rick Moody

  • #6
    Tracy Chevalier
    “I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
    ― Tracy Chevalier

  • #7
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud

  • #8
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

  • #9
    Doris Lessing
    “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
    ― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

  • #10
    “I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
    ― Michael Crichton

  • #11
    Sarah Josepha Hale
    “Mary had a little lamb
    Its fleece was white as snow...”
    ― Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

  • #12
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    ― Anne Tyler

  • #13
    Pat Conroy
    “Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
    ― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

  • #14
    Zadie Smith
    “The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
    ― Zadie Smith

  • #15
    “The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
    ― Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy

  • #16
    Henry Green
    “To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
    ― Henry Green

  • #17
    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

  • #18
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert

  • #19
    William Shakespeare
    “By the pricking of my thumbs,
    Something wicked this way comes.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

  • #20
    Dale Carnegie
    “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
    ― Dale Carnegie

  • #21
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

  • #22
    Walker Evans
    “Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
    ― Walker Evans

  • #23
    “To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
    ― Geoffrey Wolff

  • #24
    Michael Cunningham
    “I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

  • #25
    Joni Mitchell
    “We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
    ― Joni Mitchell

  • #26
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro

  • #27
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan

  • #28
    Joe Raposo
    “Sunny day
    Sweepin' the clouds away
    On my way to where the air is sweet”
    ― Joe Raposo

  • #29
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #30
    Roland Barthes
    “I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
    ― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text



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