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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
    Michael Crichton
    “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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